Instead of learning such unconstitutional heresies, the reformer suggested, students should begin their study with the phrase, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”
Monday, November 21, 2022
Mobbed By Consent
Most states in today’s U.S. periodically undertake the task of revising academic standards for their public schools. Recently, in one such exercise, a member of the commission charged with reviewing the standards for social studies moved to omit the first sentence and a half of the Declaration of Independence—all that stuff about the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, self-evident truths, and unalienable rights that governments are instituted to secure. Sounded like a violation of the separation of church and state to him.
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There are not going to be enough lamp posts.....
ReplyDeleteAmen brother....
DeleteInvest in industrial hemp.
DeleteI think I'll keep the FULL text of the Declaration of Independence. Without immutable laws and a voice for the minority, we end with mob rule.
ReplyDelete- Arc
Well said Arc, well said!
Deletesocial studies is a joke. the kids learn nothing but bullshit left wing nonsense.
ReplyDeleteback in the late 1990's , my kids high school social studies book (?) had 2.5 pages on WW2
and 64 pages on the civil rights story. at a parent teacher meeting I asked about this.
you mean during the time when close to 70 million people died is only worth 2 pages ?
and there was a whole page on how bad it was we dropped the bomb on Japan ?
and let not forget how the kids can't find anything on a map these days.
let alone know anything about the constitution or bill of rights !
just like closing down all shop classes, we can thank the peanut asshole for most of this.
I followed the link, and read the whole post, discovering the writer was Will Morrisey. I am familiar with him, and so was not surprised to note that it was him, since he is a very sharp guy, a conservative that sees through the RINO's that seem to be the largest members of the Republican party today.
ReplyDeleteI never read all of the work of Tocqueville on America and democracy, but I did read bits and pieces. From what I remember, basically he thought our form of government was exceptional but the idea of the individual could cause trouble. I don't know if that is really exactly what he was meaning, but I think it is close.
In any case, Tocqueville would not recognize America in it's current form. Or if he did, he would say that the government was failing not due to the rugged individualism of the people, but due to the corruption that power tends to breed.
You could argue the point forever, and not come to an agreement, but I think that the government as we know it is failing, and that in all likelihood it cannot be saved in it's present form. It has been both too corrupt, and to powerful, just like we saw in the 20th century, in nation after nation, from China to the Soviet Union, to smaller countries like Vietnam, Cambodia or Kampuchea, as it was known before the French invaded it. Estimates of the number of citizens killed by their own governments vary widely but I have seen numbers as high as 200 million. I think that we are seeing the beginnings of a government that is willing to follow the same steps as Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot. Right now we the people have vast numbers of guns in our possession. As you can see, the government is trying to take the guns away from us. That is among the first steps that governments do. And they have a lot of followers.
One nation, under guard,
ReplyDeleteWith liberty and
Just us...
The story mentions "the commission" but does not name it, not that I could find.
ReplyDeleteWell, damn. I can only wonder what they would do with the Bible...
ReplyDeleteGo to any liberal Episcopal, Presbyterian or Methodist church and you’ll have a pretty good idea.
DeleteCan you explain further?
DeleteWell, you can start with the fact that the United Methodist church is teaching in seminary that God is a she.
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