Our Constitutional Republic: A Trilogy: Seed of Birth, Destruction and Restoration

By William J. Dell

What more can be said about a book than that all Americans should read and think about it? In this time of challenges for America, here is a reasonable, readable, passionate, balanced book telling the tale of our nation's meaning from before its founding until the present day. It captures the original American spirit of hunger for liberty and opportunity, of love of God, and of reverence for honest hard work.

Written by a man who has served our country all his life and knows why he has done this, the book reminds America in reasoned words and well-written prose of our founders' words and intentions. Will echoes patriot voices, old and new, holding up a standard of truth, self reliance, tolerant mercy to others, and most of all — the standard of liberty.

Will traces our founding principles, the rise and effect of progressive politics, and the horrible threats America faces today. He explains how we must all be aware and active. Most importantly, he tells us all what we can and must do to see that America does not perish from the earth.

Today, Americans need this book. We need to read it before our next election. Enjoy and profit from your time with Will —, I have!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665557597

William J. Dell

William J. “Will”Dell is an ardent patriot and a retired Navy Master Chief who served his nation for 25 years during the Vietnam era. He has made a concerted study of the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the history of our Constitutional Republic over the past 60 years. He has three imperatives in his life: God - Family - Country. He makes no apology for his Christian faith. He knows beyond any shadow of doubt that God raised up our Founding Fathers to establish our Constitutional Republic to be a beacon of freedom to the world. He is a strict Constitutionalist as it was interpreted for the first 150 years of our history. He believes that it is the responsibility of We the People, as individuals and as a nation, to be vigilant in the preservation of our Constitutional Republic, our Judeo-Christian heritage, and the unalienable rights we received from God to Life, Liberty, and Property. Will is an enthusiastic family history buff. He has discovered direct ancestors on his family tree who have served in every major conflict our nation has been in since the Revolutionary War. A family tradition that continues as a daughter and grandchildren have donned the uniform of their country in defense of liberty. Throughout his naval career, Will traveled the world and lived in both Europe and Asia. He has also traveled extensively within the United States having visited museums, libraries, and historical sites in 48 of the 50 states. Will has a degree in business information systems. Will, a life member of both the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is retired and makes his home with his wife, Fran, in Arizona when they are not traveling, doing family history research, or visiting their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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DEDICATION

This book is lovingly dedicated in honor of Jim Allen English (21 March 1910 - 13 August 1989). Jim was a true Patriot, Friend, Hero, and Mentor to me. He will ever be the inspiration of this writer. I had only known Jim three years and had not spent a great deal of time one-on-one with him when I told him with all the sincerity I could muster, Jim, you are one of the few men I have known who is worthy of emulation.

It was fifty-five years ago when I had the privilege of having this wonderful man enter into my life. He and Marie came to visit me in Wahiawa, Hawaii, where I was stationed, to discover who this man was that wanted to marry their daughter, Johanné. Since that meeting my life has not been the same.

Jim and I have shared three great loyalties – God, Family, Country. They were the focus of his life and writing, and are the focus of my life and writing. In every way throughout his time here on earth, he strove to articulate these loyalties as he labored to preserve our Constitutional Republic. In doing so, he taught me and others to move in those same paths.

I will always be grateful for the fishing trips, for the walks, talks, visits and the relationship we enjoyed together as dad and son. I will always be grateful for his instructions concerning the great principles of Liberty and Freedom upon which this nation was founded. But I am most grateful and will be eternally so, for his beautiful letters wherein he instructed me when far apart. In all these activities he was continually teaching me concerning these three great loyalties of life and I acknowledge that I am a better man for it. My only prayer is that I may remain faithful to all he taught by precept and example.

CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgment

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

SEEDS OF BIRTH PART 1 - FROM COLONIZATION TO CONSTITUTION

Chapter 1 – Born of Neglect

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Chapter 2 – Tyranny Unleashed

Lexington and Concord

The Second Continental Congress

Articles of Confederation

Annapolis Convention

Shays’ Rebellion

Constitutional Convention

The Conscience of a Patriot

Chapter 3 – The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Education of the Founding Fathers

The Political Philosophy of the Founding Fathers

The Structure of God’s Law and Its Relationship to Our Divinely Inspired Constitution

SEEDS OF BIRTH PART 2 - RES PUBLICA

Chapter 4 – A Constitutional Republic Defined

Chapter 5 – Inside Our Constitution

The Preamble

The Constitution

Article I: Legislative Branch (The Congress)

Article II: Executive Branch (The President)

Article III: Judicial Branch (The Courts)

Article IV: Form of Government

Article V. Amendments

Article VI. Debts, Supremacy, Oaths

Article VII. Ratification

Chapter 6 – Inside Our Bill of Rights

The Preamble to The Bill of Rights

Amendment I: Freedom of Religion

Amendment I: Freedom of Speech and Press

Amendment I: Freedom of Assembly and Petition

Amendment II: Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Amendment III: Quartering of Troops

Amendment IV: Search and Seizure

Amendment V: Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process

Amendment VI: Criminal Prosecutions - Trial by Jury, Confront Witnesses, Counsel

Amendment VII: Civil Suits - Trial by Jury

Amendment VIII: Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Amendment IX: Non-enumerated Rights

Amendment X: Rights Reserved to States or We the People

Chapter 7 – The Other Amendments

Early Amendments – XI and XII

Post Civil War Amendments – XIII, XIV and XV

Twentieth Century Amendments – XVI through XXVII

Reflections on Our Constitutional Time Line

Chapter 8 – Presidential Statesmanship of Our Founding Fathers — Period I: 1 George Washington - 5 James Monroe 1 The Unaffiliated Administration of George Washington (1789-1797)

The Birth of the Two-Party System and The Jeffersonian Philosophy

2 The Federalist Administration of John Adams (1797-1801)

3 The Democratic-Republican Administration ofThomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

4 The Democratic-Republican Administration ofJames Madison (1809-1817)

5 The Democratic-Republican Administration ofJames Monroe (1817-1825)

Seeds of Destruction

Chapter 9 – Constitutional Seeds of Destruction

Nineteenth Century Seeds of Destruction

Slavery

A Constitutional Convention (A Con-Con)

Twentieth Century Seeds of Destruction

Direct Income Tax

Direct Election of Senators

Chapter 10 – Presidential & Congressional Tyranny By Administration — Period II: 6 John Quincy Adams - 15 James Buchanan The Split of the Democratic-Republican Party and The Birth of the Jacksonian Philosophy

Introduction: The Election of 1824

6 The Democratic-Republican Administration of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

7 The Democratic Administration of Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)

8 The Democratic Administration of Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

9 The Whig Administration of William Henry Harrison (1841-1841)

10 The Whig/Independent Administration of John Tyler (1841-1845)

11 The Democratic Administration of James K Polk (1845-1849)

12 The Whig Administration of Zackary Taylor (1849-1850)

13 The Whig Administration of Millard Filmore (1850-1853)

14 The Democratic Administration of Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

15 The Democratic Administration of James Buchanan (1857-1861)

Chapter 11 – Presidential & Congressional Tyranny By Administration — Period III: 16 Abraham Lincoln - 24 Grover Cleveland The Birth of the Republican Party and The Democratic Party of the Reconstruction Era:

Introduction: The Election of 1860

16 The Republican Administration of Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

17 The Democratic Administration of Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)

18 The Republican Administration of Ulysses S Grant (1869-1877)

19 The Republican Administration of Rutherford B Hayes (1877-1881)

20 The Republican Administration of James A Garfield (1881-1881)

21 The Republican Administration of Chester Arthur (1881-1885)

22 The Democratic Administration of Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)

23 The Republican Administration of Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)

24 The Democratic Administration of Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)

Chapter 12 – Presidential & Congressional Tyranny By Administration — Period IV: 25 William McKinley - 31 Herbert Hoover The Transition to Democratic Progressivism

Introduction: The Election of 1896

25 The Republican Administration of William McKinley (1897-1901)

26 The Republican Administration of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

27 The Republican Administration of William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

28 The Democratic Administration of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

29 The Republican Administration of Warren G Harding (1921-1923

30 The Republican Administration of Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

31 The Republican Administration of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Chapter 13 – Presidential & Congressional Tyranny By Administration — Period V: 32 Franklin D. Roosevelt - 43 George W. Bush The Era of Democratic Social Justice:

Introduction: The Election of 1932

32 The Democratic Administration of Franklin D Roosevelt (1933-1945)

33 The Democratic Administration of Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

34 The Republican Administration of Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961)

35 The Democratic Administration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)

36 The Democratic Administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)

37 The Republican Administration of Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)

38 The Republican Administration of Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)

39 The Democratic Administration of Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

40 The Republican Administration of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

41 The Republican Administration of George H. W. Bush (1989-1993)

42 The Democratic Administration of William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)

Impeachment: The Clinton Impeachment

43 The Republican Administration of George W. Bush (2001-2009)

Chapter 14 – Presidential & Congressional Tyranny By Administration — Period VI: 44 Barack H Obama - 46 Joseph Biden The Transistion to Democratic Socialism and A Great Awakening - The Tea Party and Constitutional Conservatism

44 The Democratic Administration of Barak H Obama (2009-2017)

45 The Republican Administration of Donald J. Trump (2017-2021)

46 The Democratic Administration of Joseph Biden (2021-20xx)

Post Script

Chapter 15 – The President’s Cabinet

Tyranny Through Unconstitutional Branches of the Federal Government

Nineteenth Century Executive Branch Expansion

Twentieth Century Executive Branch Expansion

Chapter 16 – Presidential Tyranny by Executive Orders

Chapter 17 – On the United States Being a Christian Nation

Chapter 18 – Judicial Tyranny

Judicial Conservatism and the Recognition of Both the Spirit and Letter of the Constitution

Judicial Activism and the Destruction of the Spirit in Favor of Only the Letter of the Constitution

The Assault Continues into the Twenty-first Century

On a Woman’s Right to Choose (Abortion)

On the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

From Originalist Qualifications to Presidential Philosophical Qualifications

Chapter 19 – Present-Day Threats to Our Constitutional Republic

1. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through the Loss of Our Moral Compass (Our Judeo-Christian Heritage)

2. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through the Politics of Division

3. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through Indoctrination

4. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through National Bankruptcy

5. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through a Welfare Socialist State

6. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through Economic Dependency

7. From Our Constitutional Republic Toward Tyranny Through Citizen Apathy

Chapter 20 – The Political Spectrum of 21st Century Americans

Seeds of Restoration

Chapter 21 – Constitutional Republic Restoration Returning the Federal Government to Its Defined Purposes

Twenty-first Century Seeds of Restoration

Article V. A Constitutional Convention (Con-Con)

REFORM # 1: A National Referendum

REFORM # 2: Campaign Finance Reform

REFORM # 3: Congressional Term Limits

REFORM # 4: Supreme Court Structure and Term Limits

REFORM # 5: Balance Budget Amendment

REFORM # 6: Amend the XVI Amendment

REFORM # 7: Repeal the XVII Amendment

REFORM # 8: Comprehensive Immigration Reform

REFORM # 9: Elimination of Unconstitutional Executive Departments

Chapter 22 – A Patriot’s Responsibility

Introduction

Teaching Our Posterity and Others

Involvement

Voting

Communication

Supporting National Unity

Supporting Our Troops

Respecting Our Flag and National Anthem

Courage and Fortitude

Conclusion

APPENDICES

Appendix A – Holy Writ The Word of God Concerning Government

Introduction

Holy Writ — Tanach

Holy Writ — Old Testament

Holy Writ — New Testament

Holy Writ — Book of Mormon

Holy Writ — Doctrine & Covenants and Pearl of Great Price

Appendix B – The Qur’an and the Constitution

Introduction

Questions?

Constitution & Qur’an

Sunni & Shi’a

Shi’a & Sunni Theology

Courageous Moderate Muslims

Appendix C – The Spiritual Foundation of Liberty

Appendix D – Higher Powers

Appendix E – President Trump’s Impeachment Documents

Appendix F – Islamic Jihadists (Muslim Extremists) Attacks

Appendix G – Military Killed and Wounded Fighting Radical Islam

Bibliography

About the Author

FOREWORD

What more can be said about a book than that all Americans should read and think about it? In this time of challenges for America, here is a reasonable, readable, passionate, balanced book telling the tale of our nation’s meaning from before its founding until the present day. It captures the original American spirit of hunger for liberty and opportunity, of love of God, and of reverence for honest hard work.

Written by a man who has served our country all his life and knows why he has done this, the book reminds America in reasoned words and well-written prose of our founders’ words and intentions. Will echoes patriot voices, old and new, holding up a standard of truth, self-reliance, tolerant mercy to others, and most of all — the standard of liberty.

Will traces our founding principles, the rise and effect of progressive politics, and the horrible threats America faces today. He explains how we must all be aware and active. Most importantly, he tells us all what we can and must do to see that America does not perish from the earth.

Today, Americans need this book. We need to read it before our next election. Enjoy and profit from your time with Will —, I have!

Dr. Lloyd A. Case

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I am particularly grateful to my wife and Sweetheart, Fran, for her devoted support throughout my many musings, the writing of the manuscript and her patient initial editing. I am ever grateful that I found her along this journey we call life after the passing of my first Sweetheart, Johanné. I also sincerely appreciate the assistance of Shane Abbott, my technical editor, who has read the manuscript in its various states of completion and has made many valuable suggestions.

ABBREVIATIONS

Scriptural References are noted as follows:

For our Jewish friends:

For our Christians friends regardless of Sect:

For our Latter-day Saint friends:

Other books are cited by author and title, except as following:

PREFACE

THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS

OF WILLIAM J. DELL

A friend asked me one day, What’s all that Latin on all your articles? I had often included the Latin phrase Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae Ducit! on many of my early articles. Translated this motto means Love of God, Family, Country leads me! These words reflect the three imperatives in my life. They have been the focus of my life and writing now for more than sixty years.

God

I make no apology for my belief in God and his Son, Jesus Christ, as my Savior and Redeemer of the World. I make no apology for my belief, along with Benjamin Franklin, that God rules in the affairs of men and of nations. I make no apology for my belief, along with Thomas Jefferson, that He is our Creator from whom we receive our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and Property. The person who wants freedom to enjoy their God-given unalienable rights must first accept God’s law of choice and accountability. Each person must accept the personal responsibility for their own conduct and the consequences of their own choices. It was Jim English who taught me that Freedom is not divisible. ‘Religious’ and ‘political’ liberty are but two peas in the same pod. The ‘pod’ is a gift of God. It is the divine principle which equates freedom with individual responsibility. I make no apology for my belief that neither an individual nor a nation can get ahead by leaving God behind.

Family

I make no apology for my belief in the traditional family, of one man and one woman with their posterity. I make no apology for my belief that this is what God, our Father, intended when he placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I make no apology for my belief that husbands and fathers are to be hunters and gathers of their families and that wives and mothers are to be the nurturer of their posterity. I make no apology for my belief that wives and children have a just claim on their husbands and fathers as protectors – spiritually and temporally. I make no apology for my belief that the family is the basic unit of society and that families come together to form communities, states and nations. It is never the case that nations and states are divided into families. Because of this, nations and states are the servants of their citizens – citizens are not to be the servants (slaves) of nations and states.

Country

I make no apology for my belief that God caused this nation to rise and that it was by His providence that it became great — the greatest nation on earth — the beacon of hope and the bulwark of freedom for His children everywhere. A nation destined to proclaim liberty throughout all the land [world] unto all the inhabitants thereof. A nation destined throughout its history, in many conflicts and at the cost of the life’s blood of its citizens, to preserve the liberty and freedom of many nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples.

I make no apology for my belief that it was God in His infinite wisdom that raised up the Founding Fathers to establish our Constitutional Republic. It was through His Divine providence and inspiration that its founding documents – The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – were written. It is from God that we receive our unalienable rights to life, liberty and property. It must be understood that all human rights come from our Father in Heaven and not from earthly governments. Because if government has the power and ability to bestow human rights – government has the power to rescind those rights.

I make no apology for my belief that governments are instituted by man to protect their God given unalienable rights not to destroy them. Governments should never do for their citizens what the citizens should do for themselves. Governments should always preserve the self-reliance of their citizens. Saying this, I also understand that in our Constitutional Republic, State governments have the responsibility to respond to natural disasters within their borders, to protect their citizens when they are helpless and vulnerable.

I make no apology for my belief that governments can never administer Charity because Charity is never forced and government by its nature is always force. Government can only give through social-justice to one citizen what it has first taken (stolen) from another citizen.

So my fellow Americans, when one considers all things it becomes abundantly clear that man is subservient to God who created him and gives him life. Logic then dictates that the state and nation are subservient to the citizens who give it life as stated in our Tenth Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (Emphasis added.)

It is also clear that KJV: Proverbs 29:2 is very true: When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. May God grant us Statesmen who desire to right our badly listing Ship of State rather than politicians who are seeking their own power and the enslavement of We the People. And may free men and women everywhere understand that there are things worth dying for. Three of the greatest of these are — God, Family, Country!

INTRODUCTION

(To Be Read)

This book is being written as a constitutional primer and an update to the first edition. It is an effort to enlighten the sleeping giant, We the People, so that all freedom-loving patriots will consider looking to our past so that we, as individuals and a nation, might have a future in Our Constitutional Republic. A future that will secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

It briefly outlines in:

Seeds of Birth — How we became a Constitutional Republic, the elements of our Constitution, and synopsis of the presidential administrations of the Founding Fathers.

Seeds of Destruction — The factors that are conspiring to destroy what the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us, synopsis of the presidential administrations from President John Quincy Adams through President Joseph Biden, the President’s Cabinet, a brief history of the Supreme Court. A partial list of present-day threats to our Constitutional Republic, and an overview of the political spectrum of 21st century Americans.

Seeds of Restoration — Actions needed to restore the Constitutional Republic and thwart its drift toward the Left, and a delineation of a patriot’s responsibilities.

Throughout this work the first three words of the Preamble to our Constitution, We the People, are emphasized. They should never be overlooked or allowed to be diminished. We the People defines from whence the federal government receives its mandate to govern. It is from We the People, the citizens of the United States, and no one else. We the People are the rulers. The Congress and the President are our servants elected (hired) to represent We the People collectively on the international stage to the world. Domestically, the Congress and the President are only to assist in our internal governance as representatives to the national town hall to accomplish We the People’s collective and interstate, but not intrastate, business. After all, there is not a hall large enough for our more than 350 million citizens each to represent themselves.

It must never be forgotten by We the People that the United States is a more perfect Union of fifty individual and separate State governments. And as stated in our Bill of Rights, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (Tenth Amendment, emphasis added.) Let us, We the People, always remember that it was Thomas Jefferson’s belief that, The government closest to the people serves the people best. A sentiment later expressed by Henry David Thoreau in his essay on Civil Disobedience as, That government is best which governs the least.

It is the year of our Lord 2022 and of the United States of America 246. If we are to save our Constitutional Republic for ourselves and our posterity, We the People, as individuals and a nation, must awaken and become patriots. For, if We the People continue to acquiesce, we will lose ALL for which our Founding Fathers gave their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor!

As I have pondered the challenge and choice that are urgently before each of us as citizens, concerning our national, state and local government. I continue to conclude that We the People remain in grave danger of losing our Constitutional Republic. It would be well for each of us to understand that time is running out for us to be able to reverse the loss of freedom We the People, as individuals and a nation, have had.

If our Constitutional Republic is to continue to be the beacon of Liberty, We the People, as individuals and a nation, must take a stand. Each of us, as a citizen, and as free man or woman, is, at this time, once again called upon to respond to the clarion call of Joshua of old, who said:

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (KJV: Joshua 24:15, emphasis added)

And let every citizen realize and understand that THEY MUST CHOOSE! In this fight there can be NO NEUTRALITY! Either you stand with our Founding Fathers and the patriots of 1776 on the side of our divinely inspired Constitutional Republic, OR you are against it and in league with those who would destroy our Heritage, the Ideal known as America, and our way of life for ourselves and our posterity.

I would remind you, my fellow citizens, of the following stated by John Philpot Curran in 1790: It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. From this source we get the oft quoted maxim: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

The question to be pondered is why are the socialists and liberals losing power? If in fact they are. I believe that God has heard the prayers of a nation in revival. A nation seeking to hold fast to our unalienable rights granted to us by our Creator and the personal freedoms guaranteed to us by our Founding Fathers in our Divinely inspired Constitution and Bill of Rights. I truly believe it is by the prayers of the righteous that we are spared at this time.

I believe that we as a nation, over the past sixty years, have been like the children of Israel wandering in the Wilderness of Sin. I also believe that the scriptures are true and if we are to be redeemed as a nation and a people we must return to the principles taught in the scriptures and our founding documents and raise up a new generation. A generation that will serve the Lord.

We must believe the Scriptures that state:

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (KJV: Psalms 33:12)

Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. (KJV: Proverbs 14:34)

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. (KJV: Proverbs 29:2)

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (KJV: 2 Chronicles 7:14)

We the People have been granted a reprieve by our Father in Heaven. I believe this is because many have begun to seek Him again since the ways espoused by the liberal left have and continue to fail. Ways that have destroyed the family and the traditional values of our forefathers. Ways that attacked the very foundation of our great nation.

During the Revolutionary War, only about one-third of the colonists were concerned about their liberties. The others were apathetic or looking to climb on the band wagon of the winning side. We need to be numbered with those who are anxiously engaged in increasing the conservative Right in both the House and Senate. We need to ensure that a conservative is elected President. Much of what needs to be done will be painful to We the People, individually and as a nation. The Progressives have been sowing their Seeds of Destructions for nearly one hundred years. We the People because of our indolence have been complicit in their efforts. We have not been vigilant. We the People have trusted in our elected representatives to be Statesmen doing what is best for our Constitutional Republic, but they have instead been Politicians lusting for power and serving themselves. To restore our Constitutional Republic to the vision of our Founding Fathers and remove the chains of slavery that have encircled us will take some time.

Each of us chose to be on the Lord’s side during the first struggle for freedom when a third of the host of heaven were expelled. Each of us must now choose again to be a freedom-fighter or be a fighter-of-freedom in the struggle to maintain our God given endowment to life, liberty and property. Unlike our Revolutionary War ancestors, we, however, cannot sit by and be found guiltless. In restoring our nation to the great principles our Founding Fathers set forth in our divinely inspired Constitution, it is important that we remember the counsel of Thomas Jefferson, In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Great leaders of the past, in nations who have lost their glory, sounded the certain trumpet. Their pleas went unheeded and their nations declined and passed into history. We the People, as individuals and as a nation, need to learn from their experience. There was Demosthenes in 341 BC who said, There must be some cause, some good reason, why the Greeks were so eager for liberty then, and now are eager for servitude. Or like Cato who said of the Roman Empire in 63 BC, Our liberties, our lives, are in danger. And concerning our own great nation, Ezra Taft Benson, President Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture, had this to say in the 1960’s, To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom no matter what the cost. It can help save your soul –- and maybe your country.

To maintain the American way of life and pass it intact to succeeding generations is the responsibility of every true American. Will we accept the responsibility to pass to our posterity the heritage of our Founding Fathers or will we sit by and leave them a Welfare Socialist State?

I plead with you to stay in the fight. Do whatever you can to ensure that good men and women, who are statesmen and concerned for our country, are elected to restore our nation to the principles upon which it was founded. I implore you to vote and more importantly to pray daily for our nation and our leaders that the cause of freedom might be preserved.

Our elected leaders take an oath to protect and defend our Constitutional Republic against all enemies foreign and domestic:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

It is time for them, the Congress and the President, to be Statesmen, not politically correct politicians, and protect us, We the People, from ALL our enemies — within and without.

We the People, as a nation, are engaged in a major battle for the hearts and minds of the American People. A battle that will determine if We the People, as a nation, will remember our Judeo-Christian Heritage and choose freedom as guaranteed by our Declaration of Independence and our divinely inspired Constitution. A battle that will determine, as President Abraham Lincoln said, That this nation under God shall have a new birth of Freedom — that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. Or, a battle where We the People, as a nation, acquiesce and choose the chains of slavery in the form of a tyrannical federal government.

There are evil and conspiring men and women within the halls of Congress, their behind the scenes unelected power-brokers, and the perpetual bureaucrats (unelected career government employees), who are bent on usurping power from We the People contrary to the Tenth Amendment. They are minions of Lucifer who seek to enslave us, to garner control of our lives, and to use any crisis, or any means, to accomplish their purposes. They want us, We the People, to be dependent upon them in every facet of our lives. They seek to destroy the God given moral agency of man and our unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty and Property. So will you be a patriot and defend our divinely inspired Constitutional Republic, or a fighter-of-freedom and acquiesce in favor of their Welfare Socialist State and/or one world government?

Truly our federal government is broken because it has forsaken the Judeo-Christian principles which our Founding Fathers used to give us our Declaration of Independence, our 1787 U. S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights. Principles which for 135 years made us into the greatest nation in the world. A beacon of hope and freedom to ALL men. A Christian nation that honored God and His Son, Jesus Christ. A Christian nation that used the Holy Bible as a text book in its schools, public and private, but which tolerated the free expression of every citizen’s religion, Christian or not. Our Founding Fathers and the patriots of 1776 gave their all that FREEDOM might prevail over an oppressive English government and that our Constitutional Republic might be established. They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the cause. Are you willing to do as much to preserve our Constitutional Republic for ourselves and our posterity from a tyrannical federal government? Are we willing to do as much so that the light of freedom might not be extinguished throughout the world?

Each of us needs to remember, The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men [and women] to do nothing. Clearly the time is now for each citizen to choose whether he, or she, will be a patriot or a fighter-of-freedom. This book is an effort to help you understand our Constitutional Republic and its founding documents. Lastly, it is an effort to help the reader understand the threats that are before us — within and without!

May God Bless and Save the United States of America —

Our Constitutional Republic !

SEEDS

OF

BIRTH

PART 1 - FROM COLONIZATION TO CONSTITUTION

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land

unto all the inhabitants thereof

(KJV: Leviticus 25:10)

CHAPTER 1

BORN OF NEGLECT

More than two centuries ago in the year of our Lord 1776, fifty-six men met in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and signed the Declaration of Independence. In reality though the true movement for an independent United States of America began not then, but in the religious persecutions of Europe. It was the Pilgrims, the Puritans, the Lutherans, the Moravians, the Huguenots and others beginning in the 1600s who left the lands of their nativity to find religious freedom that began the American story and our movement toward independence.

The colonies in America were established mainly by England, France and Spain. Two nations, The Netherlands and Sweden also attempted to gain a foothold in the New World but their colonies were ultimately overtaken by the English. France’s colonial aspirations generally laid beyond the Mississippi River and north into Canada. Their American colony was called Louisiana and consisted of the area of Louisiana and Mississippi today. They did however claim the entire area of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Spain’s colonial holding consisted of most of the West Indies and Florida in the east; and, the entire southwest which was explored and claimed from Mexico. The French and Spanish colonists were mostly Roman Catholic. The Dutch came to the New York area. They chiefly belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church, but had a policy of religious freedom. The Swedes came to the Delaware River Valley.

English Colonial America was generally divided into three areas along the eastern seaboard. The New England Colonies consisted of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. These colonies were settled by the Pilgrims and Puritans for religious freedom. The Middle Colonies consisted of New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These colonies were settled for religious and economic reasons. The Southern Colonies consisted of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia. Generally speaking these colonies were settled for economic reasons. Two notable exceptions being Maryland settled as a haven for Catholics and Georgia for the Moravians.

A brief outline of the establishment of the English colonies follows by area.

New England Colonies

Massachusetts: The Pilgrims or Separatists wanted a church completely devoid of the Church of England. Because of this they were persecuted by the Crown. They arrived from England on November 19, 1620 after a crossing of two months and three days. These 103 souls explored the coast around Cape Cod before the settlers went ashore on Plymouth Rock on December 26. The Pilgrims came to escape oppression and find freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their hearts. Before leaving the ship, they drew up the Mayflower Compact to govern the colony.

In the Name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern part of Virginia, Do by these Presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid: and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony; unto to which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty fourth, Anno Domini 1620.

The signing of the Mayflower Compact, November 21, 1620, established Plymouth Colony and was America’s first effort at self-government. Half of the colony died during the first winter. In 1664 the Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a Royal Colony. Those who came were Puritans seeking religious freedom. The Puritans differed from the Pilgrims because they wanted to stay in the Church of England and purify its doctrine and organization to conform with the scriptures. They established a Congregationalist theocratic government and absorbed the Pilgrims into the new Royal Colony. The Massachusetts Colony established a Congregational Church and required adherence to its tenets.

New Hampshire: This colony, established in 1623, was originally an extension of the Bay colony, but was treated as a separate colony. It was established for economic reasons to provide for the fishing business. Captain John Mason sent two groups of Puritan settlers to start the colony. He named the colony for his home county of Hampshire in England. The founding document of New Hampshire was the Exeter Compact modeled after the Mayflower Compact. It became a Royal Colony in 1679 and was an expansion of Massachusetts’ Congregationalist theocratic government.

Connecticut: Settled originally in 1634 as a Dutch settlement, clergyman Thomas Hooker and his followers arrived from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1636 to escape what they perceived as the tyranny of the Massachusetts Colony which was limiting the amount of land they could farm. They settled near present day Hartford as an expansion of the Bay colony. Two other groups followed them settling in Windsor and Wetherfield. Rev. Hooker attempted to have these three communities governed by God’s Law through a document known as the Plantation Covenant which endeavored to set up rule by the people rather than the church. In 1662, John Winthrop, Jr. was granted a Royal Charter for the colony of Connecticut. This colony was settled for both economic and religious freedom. These colonists were generally of the Congregationalist church.

Rhode Island: In June 1636, Roger Williams founded Providence as a democratically ruled colony with separation of church and state. He had been exiled from Salem, Massachusetts by the Puritans for not wanting to adhere to their strict requirements. He had a belief in separation of church and state. Anne Hutchinson was also expelled from Massachusetts Bay for supporting Williams. She settled Portsmouth. They became a Royal Colony in 1663. Rhode Island gave complete and absolute right of everyone to practice religious freedom.

Middle Colonies

New York [New Netherland]: In 1609 just two years after Jamestown was established in Virginia, the Dutch East India Company hired Henry Hudson, an Englishman, to find a northeast passage to India. He ultimately sailed up the Hudson River as far as present-day Albany claiming the entire river valley for the Dutch.

In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island with 30 families. Like their Virginia counterparts, the Dutch settlers did not take much of an interest in agriculture, and focused on the more lucrative fur trade along the Hudson River Valley. Their northern most reach was Albany (Fort Orange). Further south was Kingston (Wiltwyck) and their largest colony New York City (New Amsterdam). The first two Directors General of the colony, Peter Minuit, who purchased Manhattan, and Wouter van Twiller both experienced Indian trouble as they tried to manage the colony.

It wasn’t until 1647 and the arrival of Director General Peter Stuyvesant, that things would improve. Stuyvesant became a whirlwind of activity, issuing edicts, regulating taverns, clamping down on smuggling, and attempted to wield the authority of his office upon a population accustomed to a long line of largely ineffective Directors General. Under Stuyvesant’s administration, the colony became quite profitable. The port town of New Amsterdam had a population of 9000 by 1664 with only half of them Dutch. New Netherland produced immense wealth for the Dutch, and other foreign nations began to envy the riches flowing out of the Hudson River Valley.

The Dutch lost New Netherland to the English during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1664. King Charles of England granted his brother, James, Duke of York, vast American territories that included all of New Netherland. The Duke of York immediately sailed for New Amsterdam. Director General Stuyvesant, with no means of protection, was forced to cede the colony to the English without even a struggle. In September of 1664, New York was born, effectively ending the Netherlands’ direct involvement in North America. New York became a proprietary colony in 1685.

Delaware [New Sweden]: In 17th Century Europe, Sweden was a major power. By 1650 it nearly encircled the Baltic Sea. In 1637 the New Sweden Company was formed to exploit the fur and tobacco trade in the New World. Peter Minuit, the first Director General of New Netherland, was tapped to lead the colony. His ships reached the Delaware River valley in March 1638. By 1655, the population of New Sweden had reached more than 600 souls and had spread up both sides of Delaware River encompassing areas of present day Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Under the leadership of Governor Johan Printz (1643-1653) a series of forts were established to control the Delaware River against English and Dutch shipping. The Swedes and Finns lived in peace with their neighbors, the Dutch, and the Delaware Indians. Religion in the Delaware colony was Lutheran, Dutch Reform and Anglican.

In 1654 Governor Printz was succeeded by Johan Rising. Shortly after his arrival, he attempted to remove the Dutch from the colony. This infuriated Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Amsterdam. In the summer of 1655, the Dutch sent seven war ships and more than 300 soldiers down the Delaware River. The Swedes surrendered the colony to the Dutch ending Sweden’s efforts of colonizing the New World. The Dutch were to control Delaware until 1681 when William Penn received his Charter for Pennsylvania.

New Jersey: A conglomerate colony settled by the Swedes, Dutch and English, it was established as an expansion of New Netherland by Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. The purposes for the expansion were both economic and religious freedom. New Jersey became an English royal colony in 1702. Religion in the New Jersey colony was Lutheran, Dutch Reform and Quaker.

Pennsylvania: In 1681, William Penn was granted Pennsylvania as a proprietary colony for compensation owed to his late father, Admiral William Penn. He saw it as an opportunity for a haven of religious freedom for his fellow Quakers, members of the Society of Friends. When they arrived in the New World, they found the area already settled by the Swedes, Dutch and Englishmen along the Delaware. Two other groups, the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Scotch-Irish, were to come to colonial Pennsylvania. The breakdown in these 1700’s immigrants to Pennsylvania was: 60% Scotch-Irish and Scots, 33% Pennsylvania Dutch, with 7% other.

The Scotch-Irish came from Ulster, Ireland. The American western frontier (the western part of Pennsylvania) was settled during the 1700s by mostly Scotch-Irish and Scots. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scotch-Irish, mostly Presbyterians, migrated to America in the 18th century. The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia.

The Pennsylvania Dutch referred to the people who came to Pennsylvania in the late 1600’s and the 1700’s from the German Rhineland and Palatine, and their descendants. Some of these immigrants came from the German part of Switzerland, and others were French Huguenots. These settlers came to Pennsylvania to escape war and Roman Catholic religious persecution in the Rhineland and Palatine region of southwestern Germany. Those who came settled mainly in southeastern Pennsylvania. Palatines entering through Philadelphia, after 1727, were required to take an Oath of allegiance to the English Crown.

Most of the original Pennsylvania Dutch belonged to the Lutheran or German Reformed churches. They were called the church people. Others belonged to various sects (religious groups) that grew out of pietism, a religious movement that opposed formal religious practices. These sects included the Amish and Mennonites. These two groups were noted for their plain dress and distrust of formal church practices. Today the Amish and Mennonites are called the plain people, and live mainly in Lancaster County. Another early group, the Moravians, founded Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and worked to convert American Indians to Christianity.

The Pennsylvania Dutch valued their agricultural life and worked their fields industriously. The community often worked together to provide assistance to individuals in farm and social matters. These qualities helped the Pennsylvania Dutch prosper as farmers. Pennsylvania Dutch artisans became well known for their clocks, glassware, pewter ware, and pottery. They also invented the Conestoga wagon and the Pennsylvania rifle.

Southern Colonies

Virginia: In May 1607, Captain John Smith established the first English settlement at Jamestown and as directed by their backer the colonist held all things in common. This only lasted for four years when it was realized that for the success of the colony free enterprise was a necessity. By July 30, 1619, they had elected a House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in the New World. Virginia, including Jamestown, became a Royal Colony in 1624. Virginia was settled for economic gain and had a state religion of the Church of England (Episcopalians).

Maryland: In 1632, Lord Baltimore was granted a charter to establish a colony in the New World. He and his sons moved to the region of Maryland in 1634. Maryland was established to provide a haven for Roman Catholics in the New World and to exploit the tobacco grown there. Maryland became a royal colony in 1691 with an established religion of the Church of England. It however permitted freedom of religion of Christian sects.

Georgia: In 1732, King George II wanted to create a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish colony of Florida. To accomplish this he granted a Proprietary Colony Charter to General James Edward Oglethorpe. Most of those who arrived in 1733 were seeking relief from debtors prison. The Moravians also attempted a settlement in Georgia (1735-1740), but with its failure they resettled in Pennsylvania on the estate of George Whitefield. With the exodus of the Moravians, Georgia became a Royal Colony in 1752 recognizing as their state religion the Church of England.

South Carolina: One hundred years before the English settled the region of South Carolina, the French had made an unsuccessful attempt. In 1663 the English established the Carolina Company. The first English settler arrived in 1670. The Carolinas were ruled as a single colony until 1712. The Carolina hill country was settled mostly by Scotch-Irish immigrants from Pennsylvania and Virginia. The low country, nearer the coast, was settled by French and English plantation owners. The French, mostly Huguenots, had come to the region looking for religious freedom. The English were looking for economic gain. In 1704 the Church of England was established as the state religion.

North Carolina: Born out of necessity because of distance between the two populated centers of the Carolina Colony, North Carolina was established by royal charter in 1729. It was first settled in 1653 by Virginian colonists and was initially separated from South Carolina in 1712. It was settled mainly for economic gain and to provide a buffer from the south for Virginia.

Moravian Bishop Augustus Spangenberg led a party to survey a 100,000 acre tract of land in North Carolina in 1752. This region became known as Wachau after an Austrian estate of Count Zinzendorf. The name, later anglicized to Wachovia, became the center of growth for the Moravian church in that region. Bethabara, Bethania and Salem (now Winston-Salem) were the first Moravian settlements in North Carolina.

Such were the immigrants and colonist who settled the New World from 1607 to 1733. Over this 125 year period the thirteen original English colonies were established. And because the New World was separated by an ocean, the colonists set up governments to their liking based on tenets of their various faiths. The motherlands had little control because of distance and the time to transit the Atlantic. The seeds of independence did not germinate however until England desired to impose her will on the colonists, after 150 years of neglect, in order to retire her debt from the French and Indian War (1754-1763).

In Page Smith’s A New Age Now Begins (1976, pp 191-192), a portion of the debate held in the House of Commons concerning America’s independent spirit is recorded (Emphasis added.):

While the House of Commons was in general apathetic, only a few opponents of the measure spoke against it. Charles Townshend, as an officer of the government, had asked: "And now, will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our indulgence until they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence and protected by our arms, will they grudge to contribute