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Citizen Advocates for Constitutional Principles
www.cacp.info – # 629 – 7-22-06 –
138 – Donald Conkey
http://www.cacp.infoPrinciple of Sound Government # 18: “The unalienable rights of the people are most likely
to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written constitution.” Many Americans assume that
all nations had written constitutions. Not so. The Anglo-Saxon common law was unwritten. The first effort to write down the
rights of a people was when the English compelled King John, with the sword, in A.D. 1215, to sign the Magna Charta. In 1620
the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact but it was Thomas Hooker, and his associates in Connecticut, who actually wrote
the first written constitution – the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639 – using chapter one of Deuteronomy
as its prototype. Rhode Island would copy it. Question: Where would America’s “unalienable rights” be today
without its written Constitution, including its written Bill of Rights?
CACP’s Grass-Root effort to inform America on its Origin and History <>
Please forward to Family & Friends.<>
Source Books available at www.nccs.net <> Source: Skousen’s 5000 Year Leap
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Citizen Advocates for Constitutional Principles
www.cacp.info – # 647 –11-25-06 – 149 – Donald Conkey
Principle of Good Government
# 22: “A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.”
Dr. Skousen wrote: “To be governed by the whims of men is to be subject to the ever-changing capriciousness of those
in power. This is ruler’s law at its worst. In such a society nothing is dependable, no rights secure, with everything
established in a constant state of flux. Nothing becomes fixed and predictable for the future.” The Founders, and their
forbearers, had a different viewpoint. They defined law as a “rule of action” which was intended to be as binding
on the ruler as it was on the people. John Locke wrote, “Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule
to live by, common to everyone of that society, and made by the legislative power erected in it.” The
2006 election reiterated this principle.
CACP’s Grass-Root effort to inform America on its Origin and History <> Please forward to Family & Friends.<>
Source Books available at www.nccs.net <> Source: Skousen’s 5000 Year Leap - p. 243 - 244
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