True Liberty is not possible without fundamental moral constraint, and the desire, the discipline and the willingness for individuals within society to apply that constraint to their own lives on a voluntary and ongoing basis at all levels of society.
That is why America has prospered and been free, because this principle has been lived and because the source for the fundamental values that make it possible has been recognized and openly and freely professed. That source is God in Heaven, the Almighty Creator. Our Declaration of Independence, and then our Constitution and Bill of Rights are rooted in these facts...in this principle.
When peoples from other lands, from all over the world and different cultures come together in America and adopt these fundamental principles...it makes us strong, and perpetuates our liberty. That's because these principles encourage and produce self-reliance, independence, self-worth, respect for others who live accordingly, and individual responsibility.
But when people come here with no willingness to either learn or adopt these foundational principles, or when our own citizens depart from them and pass laws at the federal, state, and local levels that work against these principles, or when our constitutional interpretation is so wrested as to accomplish the same...it is then that we are weakened from within and it is then that we are on the path to losing our God-granted and cherished liberty and republic.
Therefore, if we fail, it will because we failed in these principles first and foremost.
But if we are to retain our liberty, it will because we remember these critical principles and rise up as a people and apply it ourselves, and insist that it be applied by anyone who represents us at any level of government.
...and it will be because, in knowing and honoring those principles and fundamental values, we are armed as a citzenry and will not give up that latent force, but instead, teach our children to own, understand, and bear arms from an early age, and remind all politicians of the same.
Jeff Head, December, 12, 2009.
The founders of this nation, the UNited States of America, knew these principles, staked their all upon them, founded our nation and laws in them, and spoke of them often:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
The twelve principles of the RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION effort are dedicated to and rooted in these same principles.
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