Today's American Minute

Virginia's George Mason - Purpose of Bill of Rights is to Limit Government! - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 30, 2025 • Virginia's George Mason - Purpose of Bill of Rights is to Limit Government!

George Mason originally suggested the wording of the First Amendment be: "All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."

Early Black Preachers: John Marrant, George Liele, Andrew Bryan, David George, Richard Allen, & Harry Hosier - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 27, 2025 • & Harry Hosier - American Minute with Bill Federer • Andrew Bryan • David George • George Liele • Notable Black Preachers: John Marrant • Richard Allen

Hosier's sermon "The Barren Fig Tree," preached in 1781, was the first sermon by a black preacher that was copied down and printed. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, exclaimed that Harry Hosier preached the greatest sermon he had ever heard.

Inauguration History

January 19, 2025

LISTEN Inauguration History ... click here for video Originally, Presidential inaugurations were held on March 4th, unless that day fell on a Sunday, in which case, out of respect for the Lord's Day, it was moved to Monday, March 5th. This was the case with James Monroe in 1821, Zachary Taylor in 1849, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 and Woodrow Wilson in 1917. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The period between the elections in November, after harvests were taken in and before winter storms, and the spring, when politicians could take the long trip to the...

"So Help Me God": Purpose of an Oath, and Nietzsche's shocking admission - American Minute with Bill Federer

January 11, 2025 • "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

January 09, 2025 • 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."