Today's American Minute

Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • Companies • Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer • Indonesian Nutmeg Island traded for Manhattan • Spice Trade • Stock Market • Volcanos

The Dutch gained control over Indonesia while the British gained control of India.

Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries, and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 24, 2025 • and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York) • Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries

In 1696, King William granted freedoms to Dutch Church in New York with the Charter: "William the third, By the grace of God, King of England ... Our said loving subjects ... to preserve to them and their successors that liberty of worshiping God according to the constitutions and directions of the Reformed Churches in Holland ..."

Income Tax: Civil War Emergency, Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent, FDR expanded - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 15, 2025 • & FDR expanded • Income Tax: Civil War Emergency • Supreme Court declared unconstitutional "Class legislation...leads inevitably to oppression and abuses"; Woodrow Wilson made permanent

Kennedy stated January 17, 1963: "Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government."

Tariff History - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13, 2025

In fact, the second bill signed by President George Washington was the Tariff Act of 1789, which imposed a 5 percent tariff on all imports.

Pastors in Politics during Revolution, and Constitution Signer Hugh Williamson - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 02, 2025 • Pastors in Politics during American Revolution: Hugh Williamson & other preachers

Baptist Pastor Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated:

“The church must be reminded that it is ... the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state ...

If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”