What Makes Government Legitimate?

Legitimacy of government is not something we normally think about because it has been 225 years since the first inauguration of George Washington.   That event signified the commencing of the Constitution.  But what was it that made the new Constitutional government...

Thoughts on Motherhood

As we approach the day each year that we celebrate Mothers and motherhood, I thought it appropriate to take time to honor the institution of Motherhood.  Interestingly, it just occurred to me that this subject is not that far removed from my previous blog on...

More on Rights

As we continue to look at individual rights it is important to keep in mind that because these rights are natural rights, given by God not man that without natural rights there is no opportunity for freedom. The nature of man is to lust for more and more power and...

Equal Rights for All

Once we truly understand that we are all created equal in God’s eyes then it is easier for us to understand what the writers of the Declaration of Independence meant by the phrase “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are...

The Basic Premise in the Declaration

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their...