5000 Year Leap Part I-II & The 28 Principles of Liberty
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5000 Year Leap--Contents-Part I
The Miracle at Philadelphia 1
Foreword XV
Introduction 1
A New Beginning 1
Why James Town was Different 2
Two Hundred Years Later 3
What About Progress to Review 4
Time to Get Back to Basis 4
The 28 Great Ideas That Are Changing the World 5
Part I Structuring a Government
With All Power in the People
The Founders’ Political Spectrum 9
What is Left? What is Right? 9
The Founding Fathers Used a More Accurate Yard Stick 10
Rulers Law 11
The Founders’ Attraction to People’s Law 12
The Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Common Law 12
Similarities Between Angle-Saxons and Ancient Israel 15
Memorializing the Two Examples of People’s Law 17
The Founders Struggle to Establish People’s Law 18
First Constitution Too Close to Anarchy 19
The Genius of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 21
A Special Device to Encourage Open Discussion 22
The Balance Center 23
America’s Three Headed Eagle 24
The Two Wings of the Eagle 25
Thomas Jefferson Describes the Need for Balance 26
Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington 28
Jefferson’s Concern About Radicals 28
The Founder’s Warn Against the Collectivist Left 29
The Need for an “Enlightened Electorate” 30
The Founders’ Common Denominator of Basic Beliefs 31
Fundamental Principles 32
The 5000 Year Leap- Part II
The Founders’ Basic Principles
1st Principle Genius of Natural Law 37
2nd Principle A Virtuous and Moral People 49
3rd Principle Virtuous and Moral Leadership 59
4th Principle Role of Religion 75
5th Principle Role of the Creator 95
6th Principle All Men are Created Equal 103
7th Principle Equal Rights, Not Equal Things 115
8th Principle Man’s Unalienable Rights 123
9th Principle Role of Revealed Law 131
10th Principle Sovereignty of the People 141
11th Principle Who Can Alter the Government? 147
12th Principle Advantages of a Republic 153
13th Principle Protection Against Human Frailty 163
14th Principle Property Rights Essential to Liberty 169
15th Principle Free-Market Economics 179
16th Principle Separation of Powers 193
17th Principle Checks and Balances 205
18th Principle Importance of a Written Constitution 217
19th Principle Limiting and Defining Powers
Powers of Government 223
20th Principle Majority Rule, Minority Rights 229
21st Principle Strong Local Self Government 235
22nd Principle Government by Law, and Not by Men 243
23rd Principle Importance of an Educated Electorate 249
24th Principle Peace Through Strength 259
25th Principle Avoid Entangling Alliances 267
26th Principle Protecting the Role of the Family 281
27th Principle Avoiding the Burden of Debt 291
28th Principle Founders’ Sense of Manifest Destiny 305
Bibliography 313
Index 317
Dedication 338
The Challenge 339
28 Principle of Liberty
These are the ideas that formed the basis for America’s founding documents.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
1 The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is natural law.
2 A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless the remail virtuous and morally strong.
3 The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.
4 Without religion’s the government of free people cannot be maintained.
5 All things were created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.
6 All men are created equal.
7 The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not to provide equal things.
8 Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
9 To protect man’s rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
10 The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
11 The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
12 The United States of America will be a republic.
13 A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from human frailties of their rulers.
14 Life and Liberty are secure only so long as the right of property is secure.
15 The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
16 The government will be separated into three branches; legislative, executive, and judicial.
17 A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
18 The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved to prevent the abuse of power.
19 Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to the government, all others being retained in the people.
20 Efficiency and dispatch require government too operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to pro9tect the rights of the minority.
21 Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
22 A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of man.
23 The free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
24 A free people cannot survive unless they stay strong.
25 “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations: entangling alliances with none.
26 The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
27 The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
28 The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.
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