The Imperial Judiciary is Destroying the Rule of Law

By Rich Kozlovich

 

One April 22, 2014 Mary Ann Allen posted the article, The Constitution is Not A Living Organism, which I can't link as the site no longer exists, so you will have to take my word for what she said....or not, as you please.  She notes:

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia recently said, “The Constitution is not a living organism”  “It is a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn’t say what it does not say”. Well said Justice Scalia. The Founding Fathers who sought Gods’ wisdom were indeed led by Gods wisdom. Ask, and you shall receive.

Other court justices, attorneys, this administration, and other progressives and liberals refer to the Constitution as a “living organism”. That sounds good, if one does not know what that term means. So why is that bad for our Constitution, and the American people?

The “original” framers view of the Constitution held without debate. It generally meant that judges should interpret the Constitution as its framers intended it. A historian was quoted saying,” The Constitution has a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, today and forever.” Judges should not stray from the text’s literal meaning”. Amen to that!

 

That was over ten years ago, and now yesterday Andrea Widburg, one of my favorite writers, posted this piece, The DC appellate court order affirming Judge Boasberg dishonestly ignores its lack of jurisdiction demonstrating how much worse the federal judiciary has managed to stray from the clear intent of the Constitution, every federal law passed, and every SCOTUS decision that interferes with their view of how the world should function saying:

 

Last week, a D.C. District Court judge, James Boasberg, took it upon himself to substitute his feelings for the President’s statutory authority under the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”). When issuing his order telling the President to return to the U.S. planes filled with Tren de Aragua members bound for Venezuela, Boasberg didn’t even attempt to find law to justify his decision.  Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit backed Judge Boasberg. A quick read shows that its reason for doing so is utterly spurious because it glosses over the fact that the courts lack any jurisdiction in this matter.

 

She goes on the explain not only the lack of logic in this ruling, but a failure to address the lack of jurisdiction, but how they spew out a lot of non sequiturs to cloud the real issues.  

 

The problem with the federal judiciary falls right into the lap of the founding fathers.  Article III of the Constitution creates a “supreme Court” with the responsibility to adjudicate  “all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution."  

 

Alexander Hamilton, who was a statist by the way, assured everyone the judiciary would never run amok in response to "Judge Robert Yates, who warned of a rapacious judiciary in Anti-Federalist No. 78. Hamilton was wrong, and Yates was right."  It's apparent Yates understood people will always be people, and when there are no boundaries on their activity, they become unbalanced, and he wasn't the only one who warned of the danger of the judiciary.  All the warnings from that time have come to fruition.  

 

There's nothing in the Constitution about "Penumbras and Emanations". The courts made that up in order to redefine the simple wording and understanding of the Constitution in order to give them the power to in fact rewrite the Constitution, and the Congress should have stopped that nonsense decades ago.  

 

The founding fathers failed to create boundaries for the federal judiciary, and with lifetime appointments, that resulted in no checks or balances for the courts, however, the Constitution gives the Congress the right to determine the jurisdiction of the federal courts, and it appears the Congress, at least the Republicans, are considering doing just that.

1. 'Blatantly unconstitutional': Mike Lee takes action to restrain 'whims' of judges blocking Trump orders
2. 'It's Unconstitutional': Chuck Grassley Puts Activist Judges on Notice
3. Speaker Johnson Issues Warning: Congress Has the Authority to Defund and Disband Federal Courts (Video)
4. Hawley: End Federal District Courts’ Ability to Issue Nationwide Injunctions

With the exception of the Supreme Court, all federal courts are creations of Congress, and Congress can eliminate them, and have done so in the past when the judiciary got out of control, and it appears may have to do so again.  All these unconstitutional actions by these rogue judges is just another form of Lawfare, and it needs to be halted, and punished. 

Interdependence Day

Daniel Greenfield  July 04, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog

Who needs independence anyway?

Every progressive person knows that Independence Day is for extremists. The dream of the new post-national nation is Co-Dependence Day in which we all live interdependently under social credit systems in 15 minute cities with an endless array of agencies looking over our shoulders.

The old British entity that Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and a bunch of other dead white men fought to be free of, has been recreated in a much more nightmarish fashion. The new monarchy is a crowdsourced tyranny: an ideal for which social justice mobs will kill. 

A few centuries ago, some young men refused to have their property and their political autonomy redistributed to an elite thousands of miles away. The very idea of having a revolution over such a thing seems entirely absurd to today's wokes. Private property and nations, not to mention individual freedom, are relics of a dead, racist past. 

Or as another Englishman envisioned, "Imagine there's no countries". It's easy if you live in the EU.

All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning personal freedom and limited government. Now we have free things, unlimited government, and our freedom shrinks in proportion to the growth of our free things and of the government that hands them out.

To the denizens of public housing watching the fireworks burn briefly in the sky, who get a free ride on everything from food to housing by taking away everyone else's freedom and future, the fireworks are just one more free thing in the sea of free things that they swim in.

To the Democrat voters of the welfare state, this is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because the British were racists or weren’t providing free transgender surgery to the colonies.

If only they knew about the NHS, they would vote to undo the American Revolution in a flash.

There is a big difference between a free country and a country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both. Rugged individualism has given way to stifling crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to shoulder, clutching at each other’s wallets, crying, “Take from him and give to me."

We are a nation overflowing with the right to things paid for with other people’s money.

The fireworks that shoot up in a wonderland of blue and red, silver and gold, are a faint echo of the real thing, the gunpowder that blasted back and forth between the lines of government troops, their Hessian mercenaries and the rebel colonists who chose to ride free, rather than bend their necks to the plans of an expanding empire. The faint smell of gunpowder and the dark shapes of the barges only mime the war that was fought here. A play of light and shadow whose meaning reaches fewer and fewer people each year.

The expected speeches will celebrate some notion of independence, but did so many men risk their lives just to end up with a system that made the one they escaped seem positively libertarian by comparison? If they had known that they were going to end up with some version of the NHS, along with death panels, in a co-dependent system where everyone is looted for the greater good of the looters—they might have stayed home on their farms, sadly watching the fighting from a distance.

JFK’s famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” was always a hollow lie. Half the country is expected to ask what their country can do for them, while the other half is expected to ask what they can do for their country. This simmering civil war is often pegged as a class war, but it isn’t about class. There are billionaires and paupers on both sides, and the divide cuts across the Middle Class, dividing those who derive their income from private business from those who receive it from government and government-subsidized employment.

The Fourth of July is Independence Day, but every other day is Co-Dependence Day, the days we celebrate our integration, our volunteerism and our compliance with a vast system which makes everyone dependent on the government and which makes the government dependent on everyone who still works for someone other than the government.

Empires function by draining every drop from their possessions to cover their costs. The British Crown tried to drain America to pay down its debt, resulting in growing protests from the population and eventually a revolution. Now the Empire of Co-Dependency is draining its independent subjects for the benefit of its dependent subjects and the dependency infrastructure that employs its numberless bureaucrats who govern it all.

A new crisis is always here to justify higher taxes and bigger government.

The American Revolution was not a struggle for another nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the individual.

A nation where everyone is part of one great co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not a free nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of co-dependence is to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make the region and then every part the world dependent on one another to balance out the numbers.

Co-dependence required an end to states rights. It will eventually require an end to the rights of nations.

Like all pyramid schemes, the burden of dependency is passed on to greater and greater systems until its weight is more than that of the entire world. That burden of co-dependency is like a rock rolling downhill; it gathers more and more mass to itself, increasing its momentum, until it crashes.

The system attempts to stay ahead of the inevitable crash by making sure that every productive person pays his “fair share”. It hunts for individuals and nations who still aren’t rolling downhill, tips them over and pushes them off the mountain. All in the name of the greater good.

The new Crown is not a person, it is an idea. The throne at whose foot a formerly free people kneel is the golden seat of the welfare state. While the fireworks light up the sky, a counterrevolution undid the revolution. There is a new king and his face is on every magazine cover in the land. His bounty is a jagged bear trap that turns everyone into a ward of the state at their own expense.

As the last wave of fireworks die out, the shooting stars sinking to earth and vanishing into the darkness, the light of Independence Day fades and the crowds slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the lines of police barricades, through narrow streets, past government buildings, back to their co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation where the will of the people and the rights of the individual matter less than the latest proposal to solve the problems of their independence by making the country a more dependent place.

A few hundred years ago in these streets, men and women celebrated the end of tyranny, and in its darkest hour, lines of grim men marched along the waterfront up to the highest point on the island to mount a final defense. Sometimes the older buildings still wear their shadows on their brick walls and by the golden light of the fireworks you can almost see them, shadows moving in the darkness, their footsteps taking them north, a faint song on their lips, muskets in their hands, their lives lost and gained in defense of their freedom.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. Thank you for reading.

Unfit For Our Own Government

By Ray DiLorenzo ——Bio and Archives--June 18, 2022

Our founders had much to say regarding what kind of people we need to be in order to have a successful experiment in self-government.  They laid out a formula for success, tried and true, after thousands of years of social experimentation.   Contrary to what many people would like to believe, mankind has not changed.  There is no improved version.  We still suffer the seven deadly sins of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Over the decades past, there has been much deliberate confusion spread of the men who founded this country.

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  John Adams, 1798

Over the decades past, there has been much deliberate confusion spread of the men who founded this country, attempting to delegitimize them.  They say they were Deists, believing that God created the universe and then departed, having nothing further to do with mankind…nonsense!  Some may have been, like Thomas Paine or even possibly Thomas Jefferson. But these people were in the minority, with the vast majority believing that religious faith in the God of the Bible was essential to the formation of a self-sustaining democracy.  It was and remains a ploy to degrade our country and founding, to put it in a place more conducive to diminishing our Americanism............ To Read More....

What Would America's Two Greatest Statesmen Think of NATO?

May 19, 2022 By Francis P. Sempa

As the Cold War wound down in the early 1990s and the threat from the Soviet Union receded, the reason why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created disappeared.  But bureaucracies die hard, and bureaucratic and political inertia are often hard to overcome.  An alliance established to contain the Soviet Union needed a new purpose, and like other going concerns and political organisms, NATO would either expand or die.  So it expanded.............

Washington and Adams, as the late Angelo Codevilla reminded us in his recently published book America's Rise and Fall among Nations, believed that the United States should mind its own business unless and until its national security interests were at stake.

Washington counseled Americans to avoid letting sentiment or emotion guide foreign policy, and his neutral stance in the war between Britain and France in the late 18th century likely saved the young republic.  In his Farewell Address to the nation, Washington warned against permanent alliances with any country but acknowledged that temporary alliances based on specific circumstances would sometimes be necessary — but only based on America's interests...........

...........Codevilla further suggested that Adams would "reject the idea that Europe needs the United States to protect it from Putin's Russia, because conquering and occupying even Ukraine, never mind Germany, France, Italy, etc., is beyond Russia's physical as well as political capacity."..............To Read More....

July 4, 2021: Why America’s Founders Originally Rebelled & Their Thoughts Today

We Must Return to the Founder's Values to Save America the Beautiful

By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--July 4, 2021 @ Canada Free Press

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Somewhere between confusion and ignorance lies the teaching many Americans receive today on the motives of the Founders of the USA. The American Revolution was really a battle over ideas between the Old and New Worlds. And the chief idea being fought over in the 1770s was that of Liberty.

Colonists considered themselves heirs of the rights of freeborn Englishmen. This powerful conviction was torn-asunder by the decisions of mad King George and an arrogant Parliament. The English realized too late that principled Americans would be willing to fight and die for such beliefs as the right to representative government and the sanctity of private property.

I. Primary Goal of American Revolution: Preservation of Liberty

Amazingly, we again today must reassert our rights to such concepts as Life, Liberty and Property, against a tyrannical government or allow our children to eke out an existence as slaves of an all-powerful state.

The singular concern of American colonists—their overarching goal—was to maintain their liberty, according to Bernard Bailyn, Professor Emeritus of Early American History at Harvard. Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, and is considered the single most important work on this topic in the last half century. Bailyn claims the Founders exhibited “a cluster of convictions focused on the effort to free the individual from the oppressive misuse of power, from the tyranny of the state.”

II. Overview of American Revolutionary Influences

The general influences of Americans supporting the Revolution were as follows:

A. England’s “Unwritten Constitution” & Legal History: This includes Magna Carta, Bill of Rights and Parliamentary style of government.

B. Classical Thinkers - The American Founders read Classical authors. Writes one author:

The typical education of colonial times began at about age eight. Students lucky enough to attend school normally learned Latin and Greek grammar. They read the historians Tacitus and Livy, Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, and translated the Latin poetry of Virgil and Horace. They were expected to know the language well enough to translate from the original into English and back again to the original in another grammatical tense. Classical Education also stressed the seven liberal arts: Latin, logic, rhetoric (the “trivium”), as well as arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music (the “quadrivium”).

C. Enlightenment - Many Americans read widely in the European Enlightenment including the French philosophers, British empiricists—like Locke, and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers such as Frances Hutcheson.

D. British Puritan Revolution Pamphlets—(see below). 

E. Christianity—Both the Constitution in general, and specifically the concept of Federalism—were based upon the Biblical concept of “Covenant.”

Says Bailyn, the Americans, already much adjusted to greater levels of freedom than their continental British brethren, had long suspected England was attempting to surreptitiously deny their English rights. Colonists suspected the Anglican clergy would be used to undermine the State’s religious freedoms; whereas petty bureaucrats sent from the mother country would succeed in taxing them to death. Other issues bedeviling the colonists included being under a foreign standing army.

III. Revolutionary Writers and Themes

Colonial mid-18^th century American writers were influenced by the works of Classical thinkers and 17^th century English Revolutionaries, like John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government and John Milton’s political writings, such as his The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. These thinkers hallowed ideals of natural rights and individual liberty. Colonial American Revolutionary tracts were massively influenced by such British libertarian articles and pamphlets, widely distributed in the American colonies.

For instance, American libertarianism was taught via Cato’s Letters, an English newspaper article series. These libertarian writers translated John Locke’s sublime political writings for a more general audience. Thus did some men learn they had natural rights of life, liberty, and property, which governments must not poach. Bailyn proved the American Revolution was both genuinely radical and revolutionary, calling it “the transforming libertarian radicalism” of the American Revolution.

III. Defining Events: Property Rights Versus Tax Acts

The tinder which helped spark the Revolution aflame was taxation. Many remember the war-cry: “No taxation without representation!” Yet the issue was larger than just taxes. According to the Revolutionary mindset, it was not just the amount of taxes taken, but the very fact that England deigned to do such a taking, period. In fact, one author argued smaller taxes were even more devilish since they were less likely to be protested, but still as much a subjugation.

There were many different tax acts which drew outcries:

• The Sugar Act- 1764—Strictly collected on molasses, a very common import, and placed taxes on other common goods, including sugar, silk, and wine.
• The Stamp Act—1765 - This tax had nothing to do with stamps, but rather taxed every printed document used in the colonies. This included licenses, newspapers, and fliers. If it was printed, it had a tax.
• The Townshend Acts- 1766- This series of acts put taxes on commonly used goods, including on tea, paint, paper, lead, almost everything used in daily life in the colonies.

The British taxation of American goods was seen as putting colonists in bondage…”Taxation without representation is slavery!” It sparked the Boston Tea Party protest, a precursor to the War. When such writers as John Locke stated that all men were free, he meant any freeman could also own property.

IV. Constitutionalism

We must study the Constitution itself to understand what the Founders were trying to achieve in the Revolution. In TThe Origins of American Constitutionalism, Donald S. Lutz claims American constitutionalism begins with the charters and covenants forming the American colonies.

Lutz says the US Constitution was neither inherited from the British or simply invented by the Federalists in the summer of 1787, but influenced by both. He claims the Constitution comes from a tradition of American colonial charters and documents of political theory beginning 150 years prior to 1787. Lutz argues this via close textual analysis of such documents as the Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the Rhode Island Charter of 1663, the first state constitutions, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation.

American Constitutionalism largely comes from radical Protestant interpretations of Judeo-Christian concepts first secularized into political agreements and incorporated into constitutions and bills of rights. This rich tradition also claims aspects of English common law and English Whig theory. Individual writers were also influential, such as Montesquieu, Locke, Blackstone, and Hume.

V. Values of the Founders & Their Use Today

The following ten ideals were used by the Founders to build the nation of America from whole cloth.

A. General Regime of Liberty.

Patriot Patrick Henry once said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Yet, today, we see constant encroachment of government into every area possible, often in the name of “security.” But the Founders would never accept trading freedom for comfort!

B. Principled Government Stands Upon Popular Consent

The Declaration says, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” Yet we see many government decisions, such as Open Borders, being forced upon the people with only a minority of support.

C. Rule of Law

Only a commitment to run a government upon the rule of law can help men overcome institutional despotism, according to Rutherford’s Lex Rex (Law is King) and the Founders. And yet, today, American justice often depends just upon irrelevant factors, like one’s race—such as when Biden’s government seeks to benefit non-White farmers, which the courts then struck down.

D. Limited Government

The Founder knew that without a limited government, kings become gods rather quickly. This is why the Constitution is established to be a law settling all disputes. Yet, today we have leaders like Maxine Waters traveling out of her district to encourage a race war in the US Midwest.

E. Free Speech

Freedom of expression was a presumption to all the Founders, who then enshrined the concept in the First Amendment. Yet across the US, universities are using speech codes as an excuse to enforce Political Correctness and sanction and expel students and fire faculty. 

F. Freedom of Religion

Most Founders self-identified as Christian, and blocking a state-sanctioned church was important to them in the interest of encouraging all sects equally. But America’s war against faith by many public and private institutions has no precedent. 

G. Capitalism

Against the default socialism of the current administration, America was established upon a premise of Capitalism. This is why the Constitution has a Contracts Clause...No State shall pass any Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts. (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 10). But Biden’s socialism can only be established when the rights of property are extinguished.

H. Federalism & State’s Rights

Federalism is the idea of separation of powers on a national, regional and local level. It is one of the reasons America has been so successful. Yet, Biden claims to have new insights, i.e. more federal control of states, like the border. This also explains the DOJ suing GA for voter laws which SCOTUS is upholding similar ones in other states.

I. Republicanism

One of the chief ideas of the Founders was leadership by wise elders within the context of a popularly elected government. This notion is seen in diffusion of power through many institutions across USA, such as the Electoral College. Yet Biden is attacking state legislatures and private businesses by forcing money into states for Covid aid after the virus is in retreat such that healthy workers are making more from Fed aid than their old jobs would pay. Governors have now decided to refuse the funds to help put their work-forces back on the job.

J. Separation of Powers

The Founders believed that power must be separated to avoid tyranny. But Democrats want to pack SCOTUS with extra judges to create a rubber stamp for all their policies.

K. Property Rights

The great insight of Locke into the nature of building wealth for an entire society was defending the rights of private property for all men. Yet Biden relishes the notion of “redistributing wealth.” Not only would the Founders be furious at such ignorant and un-American posturing, history proves economic and human rights disasters always follow hard on the heels of socialism and communism.

CONCLUSION:

Let’s celebrate our Freedoms while they still exist. Don’t forget the chief right – Freedom of Speech. Recall when Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo stated almost a century ago, “this is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.” We cannot run a healthy democracy without our freedoms. Each one is precious, and together they help guarantee liberty, prosperity and happiness. 

Kelly O'Connell -- Bio and Archives

Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.

Truth, facts, honesty, and ethics have been lost in far too much of American society

By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--June 16, 2021

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On Part 1, I discussed the high value the Founding Fathers placed on God and Judeo-Christian values as the foundation for the building of this new nation known as the United States of America.  They valued this concept so much it was included as a critical element in the Declaration of Independence.  In Part 2, I discussed the concerns the Founding Fathers feared concerning the conduct of people who came to power to run the government.  In this part, we will examine how the Founding Fathers valued free speech..........To Read More......

'Ancient Principles' Birthed the Greatest Nation the World Has Ever Known

July 4, 2019 By Trevor Thomas

On the same day that the Declaration of Independence became official, a telling event further reveals that our founders understood well the “ancient principles” upon which our republic must be built. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee -- consisting of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams -- to design an official seal for the United States. Adams proposed an image of Hercules contemplating the persuasions of Virtue and Sloth.

Franklin proposed a biblical theme:...........To Read More...... 

Founding Fathers and Christianity

By Rich Kozlovich

In 1776 every European settler defined themselves as either Christians with the exception of 2500 Jews and 98 percent of all colonists were Protestants the remaining were Catholic. How good a Christian these men and women may have been is immaterial since if we decide perfection is the only definition of a Christian…..there are no Christians.

But make no mistake about this. America was founded by Christians and with the intent of this being a nation based on Christian ethics and principles. This idea the founders were deists is mostly leftist swill as there’s “virtually no evidence than a handful of civic leaders in the Founding era—notably Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and (if we count him as an American) Tom Paine—embraced anything approximating this view. "  Personally, I’ve felt for many years Franklin was a closet atheist….but so what?

Whether these few and important founders were deists or something else, is immaterial, since a more than reasonable argument can be made they were influenced by Christian values and ethics profoundly. Furthermore, there is no reasonable argument to show they desired a strict separation of church and state. And there’s more than enough in the historical record that the rest were clearly Christians.

Jefferson’s much quoted and misused statement about a wall of separation was to keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.

The original colonists came to America to live Christian lives and in to be able to worship a Christian God in a manner they desired. They viewed their efforts as a “sacred cause”, mandating “regular church attendance, and to proclaim that anyone who speaks impiously against the Trinity or who blasphemes God’s name will be put to death.”

The “Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and Massachusetts Body of Liberties are filled with such language—and in some cases, they incorporate biblical texts wholesale. Perhaps more surprisingly, tolerant, Quaker Pennsylvania was more similar to Puritan New England than many realize. The Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania (1681) begins by making it clear that God has ordained government, and it even quotes Romans 13 to this effect."

Article 38 of the document lists “offenses against God” that may be punished by the magistrate, including: swearing, cursing, lying, profane talking, drunkenness, drinking of healths, obscene words, incest, sodomy…stage-plays, cards, dice, May-games, gamesters, masques, revels, bull-baiting, cock-fighting, bear-baiting, and the like, which excite the people to rudeness, cruelty, looseness, and irreligion…” “at least nine of the 13 colonies had established churches, and all required officeholders to be Christians—or, in some cases, Protestants. Quaker Pennsylvania, for instance, expected officeholders to be “such as possess faith in Jesus Christ.”

“The Founders’ use of Christian rhetoric and arguments becomes even more evident if one looks at other statements of colonial rights and concerns such as the Suffolk Resolves, the Declaration of Rights, and the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms—to say nothing of the dozen explicitly Christian calls for prayer, fasting, and thanksgiving issued by the Continental and Confederation Congresses.”

The Declaration of Independence, the most famous document produced by the Continental Congress during the War for Independence, proclaims: “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.” As well, this text references “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” and closes by “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world” and noting the signers’ “reliance on the protection of divine Providence.”

“In 1775, at least nine of the 13 colonies had established churches. Although establishments took a variety of forms, they generally entailed the state providing favorable treatment for one denomination—treatment which often included financial support. Members of religious denominations other than the official established church were usually tolerated, but they were occasionally taxed to support the state church, and some were not permitted to hold civic office.”

“After independence, most states either disestablished their churches (particularly states where the Church of England was previously established) or moved to a system of “plural” or “multiple” establishments. Under the latter model, citizens were taxed to support their own churches. Although a few Founders challenged establishments of any sort in the name of religious liberty, most arguments were framed in terms of which arrangement would be best for Christianity.”

But are we to believe creating a more equitable concept of church and state meant these people who were so clearly enthusiastic Christians were now abandoning that enthusiasm for Christianity?

History shows unquestionably the founding fathers believed it was absolutely permissible for the state to encourage Christianity by the mere fact none of these anti-Christian policies promoted by the left in government and the courts was ever touted from the very beginning of this nation’s creation.

Everything else is cherry picking rhetorical leftist swill using our own values against us to undermine the American identity, the Constitution and the nation.

The left constantly uses our own values against us, and we just don't seem to get it.  The founders never intended for the First Amendment to be a suicide pact.  America's founders were Christians and America was a Christian nation until the left decided to use our values against us, and we let them, because they've been horribly successful, including corrupting Christian institutions with their anti-God philosophy, where Marx is as likely - and maybe more likely - to be studied than the Bible.

We're heading into a Seldon Crisis with no vision, no plan and no values, and we've lost our minds!

13 Things About America That Would Make The Founding Fathers Turn Over In Their Graves

John Hawkins | Sep 28, 2013

We're a nation that was founded by principled revolutionaries who took on the super power of their day over almost insignificant taxes they felt Britain had no right to levy. These men were small government fanatics who felt very comfortable with God, guns, and taking care of themselves. The principles those men put in place and the standards they set were what helped turn America into the most successful nation that has ever existed on God's green earth.

In order to be fair, it's worth noting that in some respects, we've done a better job of fulfilling the vision of the Founding Fathers than they were able to accomplish in their lifetimes. We got rid of slavery, became the world's only superpower, and delivered a level of economic prosperity that wasn't even dreamed of when men like Ben Franklin, John Hancock, and George Washington roamed the earth…... For all of our success, many things that Americans unquestioningly accept today would have been considered intolerable to the Founding Fathers.....To Read More.....