Inappropriate Personal Behavior Gets You Nowhere

Proverbs 22 : 24-25  NKJV:  (24)   “Make no friendship with an angry man,  And with a furious man do not go,  (25)    Lest you learn his ways, And set snare for your soul.”  We have all been around angry, upset, and most negative people.  They are almost everywhere you go today.  Emotionally out-of-control people are … Continue reading

The Constitution of The United States Part II of II

THE TWENTY-SEVEN AMENDMENTS  “To Form a More Perfect Union”  Since the U.S. Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times. In general, the first ten amendments known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government.  The majority … Continue reading

The Constitution of The United States – Part I of II

LITERAL TEXT, WITH AMENDMENTS  “To Form a More Perfect Union”  1787–Present  The feckless, states-oriented Articles of Confederation (1781) wasn’t working.  George Washington (1732–1799) declared, “I can foresee no evil greater than disunion.”  It took 42 of the nation’s “better sort” with sticktoitiveness–“well-bred, well-fed, well-read, and well-wed” white men, from twelve of the thirteen states (obdurate … Continue reading

A Prelude To The U.S. Constitution

Though the defects of the Articles of Confederation outweighed its virtues, the document was one more step toward creating the constitutional policy that became America’s great contribution to political theory.  It was another document that sought to develop fundamental law and to limit government and its powers.  The earliest, as we have previously seen, was … Continue reading