by Angel Hargrave | Dec 23, 2013 | G2G Books
“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” –George Washington (1790) America’s first Christmas in 1776...
by Angel Hargrave | Dec 16, 2013 | G2G Books
“On December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights was the first piece of legislation adopted by the First Congress. Read in context, the Bill of Rights is both an affirmation of innate individual rights and a clear delineation on constraints upon the central government....
by Angel Hargrave | Dec 9, 2013 | G2G Books
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison (speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 16 June 1788)...
by Angel Hargrave | Dec 2, 2013 | G2G Books
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked...
