Tag Archives: Founding Fathers
At this writing, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead is just shy of three million votes, a number the size of the city of Chicago, the state of Nevada, Kuwait. She has won more votes than any white man has ever gotten, win or lose. Barack Obama is the only president to receive more votes than Mrs. Clinton, including the one the Electoral College is expected to confirm on December 19. In fact, the difference between the number of votes for her and those for Mr.
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On May 29, 2013, Colin Fletcher, writer for the examiner.com website, wrote an article entitled: Gov. Christie performed his job with class and dignity. Fletcher was impressed with Gov. Christie’s cordiality towards Pres. Obama when he revisited the Jersey shore again, when, seven months ago Super-storm Sandy severely punished the famous coastline.
The question is whether or not Governor Christie’s warmth and geniality is the real thing and represents a prototype of things to come in the world of politics whereby the chasm between the Democrats and the Republicans disappears,
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In May, 1787, 55 delegates from the 13 states gathered in Philadelphia to represent them at the Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia. They were chosen to write a document to replace the most inadequate current governing text, the Articles of Confederation. The main reason the Articles were inadequate as a governing document was because it gave the 13 states too much power and sovereignty for the federal government to exert any effective authority over them. Since the Founding Fathers had relatively recently won a bloody battle with England to safeguard America’s freedoms,
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Our Founding Fathers were remarkable men – which, of course, was because of what they did for our country. More specifically, I learned to appreciate them for being able to put aside their own petty self interests for the greater good. An example of doing just that was their ability to put our fledging nation on the right track by coming together to write the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Considering their diverse backgrounds, divergent interests and passionate concerns,
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If you have been following my blogs with any regularity, you probably are wondering why I decided to write a blog on this subject rather than one related to my book, What Would Our Founding Fathers Say? Well, I decided to change course and write this blog because of what I see happening in our world of politics today.
As a country, we are getting way off course in what we should be focusing on as a nation.
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