How Should the President Be Chosen?
Dear Friends, As we enter another Christmas season, when hearts are turned more directly to most sublime of all messages--Peace on earth, goodwill toward men-can we not admit that we need heavens peace and goodwill now more than ever in our national affairs? Going through the presidential election of 2000 and hearing cries that we need to change the system, perhaps it is time to revisit the Heavenly wisdom of the electoral college which was meant to ameliorate exactly the tumult and factions our country is now experiencing.
How Should the President Be Chosen?
Our last three monthly newsletters have shown the amazing correlation between Biblical concepts and the Principles of Liberty established by the Founders for freedom, prosperity, and peace, and how they were reflected in the Declaration of Independence. This month we will show how many of those same concepts are also reflected in our structure of government as established by the Constitution of the United States. These reflections should not surprise the honest student of American History. Scholarly studies have shown that the Bible was the most quoted source, by far, in all the Founders’ speeches and writings. The reverence which the Founders showed toward Biblical concepts in both the Old and New Testaments was reflected by John Adams when he said:"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God.... What a Utopia, what a Paradise would this region be."