At the time of The American Revolution, every other nation was built on the principle of controlling the people as their first duty. The sovereign and his nobles owned everything, and virtually no one was free to choose the course of their life, where they lived, or even their vocations. Before The...

You can have an economy without a government, but you cannot have a government without an economy. The economy is more basic than government as it is built on basic human transactions, trading and interchange. This is what binds people together into communities. The majority of all communication...

For the nearly six thousand years of recorded history, wealth was measured in such things as property, livestock, precious metals, precious stones, and later coins issued by governments. In the Middle Ages, bank notes started to be issued as currency. In just the last couple hundred years, an...

There are a number of biblical prophecies that seem to speak of America. One is Revelation 12:1-18 (some of this passage is omitted for the sake of brevity): A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she...

Jamestown was the first English colony established in America in 1607 in what is present-day Virginia. A little over a decade later, the Plymouth colony was established in 1620, in what is now Massachusetts. They were about 500 miles apart, and there was no known communication between them. Yet,...

Although it will take some radical solutions to get our Federal Government back on track and reconnected again to its constitutional moorings, we have an amazingly strong and resilient foundation to work with. We must never think it is not possible. If the U.S. Navy CB’s have the motto: “The...

Our present state of government meltdown is not the failure of The Constitution, but rather our failure to comply with it. The Founders put adequate checks and balances to keep all three branches of the Federal Government in their lane and from infringing on the rights of the states and the people...

The American Founding Fathers implemented a brilliant way in The Constitution for resolving all matters that the Federal Government did not have specific authority over: let the states and the people do it. This kept the debate on matters like social issues local, knowing that the best solutions...

Following up on the fact that nowhere in The United States Constitution does it state that there must be a separation between the church and the state, it only states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Because...

Contrary to common belief, nowhere does The United States Constitution state that there must be a separation of church and state. There is only one brief statement in the First Amendment that addresses the relationship between the federal government and religion, which says, “Congress shall make no...