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The Clarity of our Declaration of Independence

This declared indifference, but as I may think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the worldā€”enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocritesā€”causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil libertyā€”criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting there there is no right principle of action but self-interest. Abraham Lincoln, speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act 0ctober 16, 1854 Apathy;  the required instrument for the denigration  of the established ideas meant to unite  and protect us as one national community.  And what is it, but indifference;  made of ignorance and self-interest.  It ha...

The Spirit of Liberty & Its Defending Champions (Paperback. March 18, 2021. On Amazon & Lulu)

  My 2nd book for the preservation of our national union.

Just The Basics: Reshaping The Objective of Education in the 21st Century Paperback ā€“ Large Print, November 2, 2020

 

The Original Spirit & Intent of Liberty: To Protect Us That We Be Happy (Chapter 4)

  ā€œThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.ā€   Thomas Jefferson, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809; Frederick Douglass would be born in 1818, and John Quincy Adams was 42 when Thomas Jefferson said as much in his old age. Our first Secretary of State and third American president, a slaveholder himself, saw that the institution of slavery would be like an anvil annihilating the original spirit of liberty and intent of the generation of thought leaders of 1776. The ability for the new country to find true peace, unalloyed joy, and prosperity in its soul, that its people be happy and at peace, and also that because of that vigilant conscience of what shared values we must hold close to our hearts and minds, our global leadership become a true light of liberty for the world. Is it in the knowledge and understanding of our prioritization of what is most important to us that our values becom...

The Intent & Spirit of America: Love Your Enemies (Chapter 3)

Charles Sumner, Abolitionist Senator ā€œThe foundation of every government is some principal or passion in the minds of the people. The noblest principles and most generous affections in our nature then, have the fairest chance to support the noblest and most generous models of government.ā€ John Adams, April 1776 What then, shall we forget the ideal to do our best to bring the government to render the right form of education unto all the American constituency? Can we only do so if those with the position to introduce a path of education, to then legislate these ideas into law, and ultimately, beget final approval of us the people, politicize their political desires before what ought to be done to instill altruism, independency of thought, and a vibrant American advocacy? that therein, we have a nation, nay, a national community of a dramatically increased number of lawful, liberty-loving American sentinels? The original spirit of liberty as found in the singular people ...