Today's American Minute
Religious Freedom Day: Jefferson Opposed Censorship, and How Courts Twisted First Amendment - American Minute with Bill Federer
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments ... tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."
"So Help Me God": Purpose of an Oath, and Nietzsche's shocking admission - American Minute with Bill Federer
"So Help Me God": What is the Purpose of an Oath?
Democrat Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan reasoned, September 17, 1913: "There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an all-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual ... A religion which teaches PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD gives strength to morality”
Fisher Ames "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Fisher Ames "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction"
Fisher Ames in his articled "Monitor," (The New England Palladium of Boston, 1804:
"We now set out with our experimental project, exactly where Rome failed with hers. We now begin, where she ended."
Lame-Duck Session and How January 20th became Inauguration Day: FDR to the Present - American Minute with Bill Federer
It was during this "lame-duck" period that Democrat President James Buchanan allowed the situation to worsen prior to the Civil War, with seven states seceding before Lincoln was sworn in. Buchanan even had Democrats in his administration secretly undermining the Union by transferring cannons and military supplies to the South to give the Confederacy an advantage.
Early Inaugural Addresses acknowledge God, Scriptures, Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer
Beginning with Washington's Second inauguration in 1793, the date for Presidents to be sworn into office was March 4th.