Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

For Americans, what is the cause, the desired effect of this awareness, practice, and protection of the ‘Spirit of the Union?’ Why does Abraham Lincoln bring our attention unto the Declaration of Independence more so beyond bringing our thoughts unto the Constitution itself? Is not ‘the Constitution,’ rather than that Declaration of Independence, the document that has been chosen as the guide of the law of the land? When the founding fathers who created and founded the specific functions of government offices, the powers that each of these would wield, how the three branches of said government (legislative, judicial, executive) would work with one another, and in what ways they would balance each other, did they not first unite the country with a founding agreement to immediately bring together the different people of the American colonies, replete with their diverse ethnicities, religions, as one people?  How was this achieved? Was it the Constitution of 1787 with its preamble (i...

The idea and reality of ‘power’ is an abstract reality that takes on clarity in the manner of its relation to its application, its desired ends, and situational context that it is practiced in.  Surely, the work to guarantee perfect liberty pertains to the American people’s understanding of the role, function, and balance of the federal government to themself, and its intended and actual balance of its three branches amongst itself. Further,  the importance of the people’s awareness that it is their solemn duty to ascertain that the national government be of and for the people, in such a way that the spirit, intention, and word of American law be protected and replenished from the source of its unmovable foundation, our national community document known as the Declaration of Independence—is of the greatest regard to the life of the national community, and the spirit of liberty that was originally intended. the unalloyed spirit of liberty  exacted in that Declarat...

Reshaping our educational goals to empower Americans  to have the time to create the financial resources to be able  to be a true check on the decision-making power of our  government calls into play the intellectual and heart strength  of the people to be players in the moral direction of our country— is of the utmost importance. Who can defend liberty without the time to do so? What importance will the students of our American schools and universities place on having a solemn respect to value protecting individual life and liberty, as found therein within our Declaration of Independence, and our constitutional papers? How shall generations of Americans own the responsibility to be sentinels of our constitutional rights, if our economic station is fixed due to government being used as the initiator of economy, rather than the American as the source creator of their own wealth? the depreciation of the value of money (inflation) occurs when the federal...

  The ancient spirit of this nation? How would you know? From where would the answer show itself to you? In what profundities of your heart, your mind, and your soul, would the answer to such a question be brought forth? Can a nation have such a purpose from something so ephemeral as ‘spirit?’ We only have to open the books that we have not been taught and read the words of champions we never knew. The words of ordinary men and women who became extraordinary sentinels—of liberty— What is that ancient spirit of America, my friend? Because you will not find it in the multiple choice questions of your history test, nor will the public school change course and settle into bringing Abraham Lincoln’s writings to life; giving it wings; allowing his sharp, cool, precise intellect to reach the mind of the ordinary; that a thousand sentinels of liberty be born; that an American may find the spirit of a nation from the pages of sacrifice and toil; from the pages of perseverance and st...

George Washington was a soldier always longing for his farm; for a return too harvest his field, to fix that hedge, to sit in his rocking chair; but to the frontiers of Virginia did he travel to protect the local people from attacks from warring tribes of Native Americans. His progress as a Christian marks his daily life and can be gleaned from his writings that compliment the national heritage of America. His one thought over the years was the issue of slavery; and in the process of the Continental Congress and his volunteer service as Commander of the Continental Army, and later as President, began to show the steady walk towards honoring liberty and justice for all. In 1792, for example, along with Congress, he designated the Northwest territories as free of slavery. He understood that slavery had to be constrained, limited, hindered, and finally brought to a close if the purpose of the United States of America was to grow and expand its roots of liberty. In his last testament, he p...