For the passed several weeks we have reviewed our Constitution’s Preamble:
This summarizes for us what the framers had accomplished in crafting the Constitution. Unfortunately We the People have allowed anti-Christ groups and forces to infiltrate every area of our nation. After Robert Owens’ first attempt at establishing a communist colony failed in Indiana, he began to establish underground communist cells to form the public school system in 1829. (1)
Horace Mann organized “state financed, state directed, and ultimately a state controlled education program superseding local control through the demand for ‘standardization’ of school structures, textbooks, curriculum, and teacher training and certification” in the 1830’s and 40’s. (2) Our History then began to be rewritten by Charles and Mary Beard (along with other Socialists) in the early 1900’s. (3)
This is why few of us understand the original intent of the Constitution. We may read it, but may not understand what the framers meant by many of its terms and clauses. To understand and recover our heritage, we learn our authentic history best straight from John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in their timeless work, the Federalist Papers. Hamilton begins the first paper with:
The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
Father, anoint us to steward this most sacred gift of Liberty for Your glory, Amen.
(1) Elizabeth Youmans, Renewing the Mind, FACE (Chesapeake, VA, Third Edition 2021), p 54
(2) Rosalie Slater, Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History, FACE (San Francisco, CA 1984) p. 52-53
(3) Rosalie Slater, Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History, FACE (San Francisco, CA 1984) p. 55
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