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rejected the first of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt
have none other gods before me" in the hope that a king
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would do for them what they should do for themselves.
They rejected a government of fixed laws, for a
government based upon the whims of a monarch, the tragic
results of which are recorded in the books of the Old
Testament.
Another system of government the Founding Fathers
rejected was a Democracy. To understand why they
rejected a Democracy, we will let them speak for
themselves.
On June 21, 1788, Alexander Hamilton made a speech
in which he stated:
It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were
practicable would be the most perfect government.
Experience has proved that no position is more false than
this. The ancient democracies in which the people
themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature
of government. Their very character was tyranny; their
figure deformity.6
Samuel Adams warned:
Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon
wastes, exhaust and murders itself! There never was a
democracy that 'did not commit suicide.'7
James Madison wrote:
.... democracies have ever been spectacles of
turbulence and contention; have ever been found
incompatible with personal security, or the rights of
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property; and have in general been as short in their lives
as they have been violent in their deaths.8
But, why doesn't democracy work? Why isn't it a
good form of government? The answer lies in a fatal
tendency of man to aspire to live off the labors of
someone else. To live, man must either work or steal.
Experience shows that he will do whichever is safest and
easiest. Thus, the majority will always follow
demagogues who promise to use the law to give them
other men's property, property usually taken by taxes.
Once the law is perverted into a system of legalized
plunder to redistribute wealth, a right sense of justice is
destroyed. Special interest groups are then formed to
lobby government for their share of the wealth. Class
hatred is generated, violence and anarchy then usher in
the fall of the government and the establishment of a
dictatorship.
This process is explained very well in the 1928 U. S.
Army Training Manual as it gives a definition of
democracy:
A government of the masses. Authority derived
through mass meeting or any form of direct expression.
Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is
communistic  negating property rights. Attitude
toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by
passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or
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regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license,
agitation, discontent, anarchy.9
Because of a willingness to profit from the lessons of
history, the Founding Fathers adopted a constitution that
nowhere mentioned a democracy, as neither did the
Declaration of Independence, nor a single constitution of
our fifty states.
What the Founding Fathers did choose to establish
was a government of written and permanent law.
Realizing that men can only remain free by limiting
political power, these laws restricted the power of
government.
Rather than enumerate a long list of freedoms
guaranteed to the people, they enumerated a short list of
what government could and could not do. Basically, this
limited government to protecting life, liberty, and
property.
To guard against usurpation of power, they divided
the power between three branches of the federal
government, the states, and the people. What the
Founding Fathers gave us was a Constitutional Republic.
One of the most important provisions of the
Constitution was the establishment of a sound monetary
system based upon gold and silver. This too had its roots
in Old Testament Bible History. The first metal
mentioned in Old Testament Scripture was gold, Genesis
2:11. The location given was near Ancient Babylon,
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which may have been the reason for it having been
referred to as "the golden city," Isaiah 14:4.
The second metal mentioned in Scripture is in
reference to Abram (Abraham). It is found in Genesis
13:2, "and Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and
in gold."
That these two metals were placed in the earth by the
Creator shows His infinite wisdom in providing man a
basis for a universal monetary system. The creation of
gold and silver was one of God's great masterpieces that
enabled man to develop a system of commerce in a
civilized society.
The use of gold and silver as money did not come
about as the result of any government decree or even of
Divine commandment. It came about as a result of the
choice (often by trial and error) of the people themselves.
This choice was made for several reasons.
Gold and silver are universally desired as objects of
beauty, especially in the form of jewelry. They are [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]