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A Founder’s Profile: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
was a remarkable man who served America at a critical time in history. A lawyer, he spoke five languages, was a member of
the Virginia House of Burgess at 25; delegate to the Second Congress at 32; wrote the Declaration of Independence at 33, was
second governor of Virginia at 36, served again in Congress at 41, appointed minister to France at 41, was first Secretary
of State at 46, was Vice President at 53, became the third president of the United States at 57, and died within hours of
John Adams, on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence – the
document he wrote during 17 soul stretching days, 16 of which were devoted to the 339 precise words that make up its first
two paragraphs – America's Foundational Document that preceded America's Constitution by eleven
years.
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A Founders Quote: Thomas Jefferson wrote the following timely
(remember this weeks election) and insightful words into the Declaration of Independence,
words seldom taught or pondered anymore, but still extremely poignant: “.
. . that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them
are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People
(later he says ‘it is their Duty’) to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its Foundations on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. . . .” America altered its government this week.
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A Founders Quote:
Jefferson embedded into the Declaration of Independence five foundational and directional
word/phrases: “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, Creator; unalienable Rights; the Supreme Judge of the World;
and divine Providence;” clear precise words used to remind America its freedoms and liberties are founded upon the Rock
of “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” and “directional” by directing America to the path
they must follow to remain free.
Jefferson
drew from Cicero’s (106-43 BC) writings that defined Natural Law as “true law [which] is right reason in
agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting;” and strengthens Jefferson’s
reference to Nature’s God with his phrase. . . “and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all,
for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge . . .” Powerful.
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A Don Conkey 1 Minute Historical
Gem – Now Monthly
March
3, 2007 - # 703 – www.nccs.net - www.cacp.info (148)
Two of Thomas Jefferson’s recorded
comments regarding using the Founder’s original meaning of the Constitution include: 1. “The Constitution on which
our Union rests shall be administered by me according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding
of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption – a meaning to be found in the explanations of those
who advocated it, not those who opposed it … These explanations are preserved in the publications of the time. (1801
- Bergh 10:248) – 2. On every question of construction, [let us] carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution
was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the
text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. (1823 – Bergh 10:418)
Sound advice then, sound advice for today.
A Don Conkey 1 Minute Monthly Liberty Gem
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On America’s Constitution: The foundational Cornerstone
of America’s new Constitution, a Constitution with, according to the Founders, a Divine endorsement, was the phrase
Jefferson embedded firmly into the Declaration of Independence – “the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
This Cornerstone provided Madison and his fellow Founders with a firm foundation on which they could anchor the four
underlying, often unspoken, but fully understood pillars (principles) of liberty, namely: “1. recognizing the existence
of natural law (which recognizes the existence of God and acknowledges that God has established a natural order of things
for this earth and the people of this earth, with the concept of unalienable rights based on an understanding of natural law);
2. the Constitution is based on the principle that the citizens of a republican nation must be virtuous and moral; 3. the
Constitution acknowledges that the people are the true sovereigns in a republican government,; 4. the Constitution was created
on the assumption that America would function under a free-market economy, recognizing and protecting property rights.”
Jefferson’s Cornerstone and the Founder’s four pillars of liberty are what make the Constitution what it
is: “a federal government of limited powers, with those powers divided both horizontally and vertically. The horizontal
separation of powers is between the bicameral legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, each with checks and balances
on the others; the vertical separation is between the federal government and the states.”
Source: The Real George Washington, pages 495-497, published
by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991
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