About The Author

Carol Sewell, a native Californian grew up in Tyler, Texas and graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

In 1980, after attending Washington for Jesus, Carol developed a passion for America and its political system.  Since then, she has been devoted to educating herself and her fellow Christians about America’s Christian heritage and our responsibility to engage in the political process.

She started her political activism in Oklahoma opposing the Equal Rights Amendment and has been involved as political liaison at church, a precinct chairman, been an election judge, and elector to the Electoral College and has worked in local, state, and national campaigns.

It is Carol’s desire to see the generations come together in unity as each generation begins to pass on biblical living, faith, the truth about our Christian heritage, and patriotism.  What Were They Thinking is written with this purpose in mind.  When she speaks it is with passion, knowledge, and sincerity.  She explains our governmental system in an easy to understand way always stressing the biblical foundations rooted in our laws and founding documents.

Carol and her husband have lived in Oklahoma, Texas and California.  Currently, Carol and her husband reside in Plano, Texas and enjoy living near their daughter, son-in-law and three grandsons.

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” 

Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833