WHAT WOULD AMERICA BE LIKE IF EVERYONE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE U.S. CONSTITUTION? Some years ago, I was watching a presidential debate on TV and the three leading candidates each contradicted each other regarding a point in our U.S. Constitution. No one seemed to notice the discrepancy, including the moderator and candidates. I realized [...]
When Was Politics Not a Dirty Word? Most American view politics as a dirty job. Majorities say the political process is dominated by special interests, flooded with campaign cash and mired in partisan warfare. Elected officials are widely viewed as self-serving and ineffective. This quote is from a September 2023 [...]
4th of July Take a moment and get inspired by the language of our Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure [...]
How Come Most Americans Don’t Understand the Constitution? In 1787 Americans Read and Understood the Constitution Back in 1787 before our Constitution was ratified, newspapers in every state printed the entire text of the proposed Constitution. These newspaper articles were filled with arguments for and against ratifying the Constitution. Tempers ran high on both [...]
What Happened to a Constitution for “Rational and Social Beings”? In Noah Webster’s famous 1828 dictionary, he defined “constitution” as “A system of fundamental principles for the government of rational and social beings.” You cannot find a modern dictionary that even vaguely has the concept of rational and social beings linked to the definition [...]
What Happened to a Constitution for “Rational and Social Beings”? In Noah Webster’s famous dictionary published in 1828, he defined “constitution” as “A system of fundamental principles for the government of rational and social beings.” You cannot find a modern dictionary which even vaguely has the concept of rational and social beings linked to [...]
What Is Constitution Day? In 2004, the U.S. Congress passed a law designating September 17 as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day” to commemorate the signing of our Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. This law instructed: each federal agency to provide educational materials concerning the Constitution to all employees every September 17, and [...]
WHAT WOULD AMERICA BE LIKE IF EVERYONE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE U.S. CONSTITUTION? Some years ago, I was watching a presidential debate on TV and the three leading candidates each contradicted each other regarding a point in our U.S. Constitution. No one seemed to notice the discrepancy, including the moderator and candidates. I realized [...]
Pledge of Allegiance – Explained The below link gives a video of Red Skelton delivering and explaining the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. This is from The Red Skelton Show on CBS January 14, 1969. Red tells us that one of his teachers in school explained the Pledge of Allegiance this way so the [...]
End the Fed? In his book, End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Federal Reserve system, not money, is the root of all evil. He argues that the Fed causes all sorts of trouble, from wars to depressions to economic bubbles. This is in line with what Thomas Jefferson said about paper money leading [...]
