Today's American Minute

Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" States? - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 21, 2023 • Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" States?

Were the states that ratified the U.S. Constitution effectively "Christian" states?

The answer can be seen by examining the acknowledgements of religion in the state constitutions at the time those states debated and ratified the U.S. Constitution.

Withholding Taxes from Your Paycheck started as Emergency during WWII "People will willingly pay very high taxes during wartime" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 15, 2023 • Withholding Taxes from Your Paycheck started as Emergency during WWII "People will willingly pay very high taxes during wartime"

John F. Kennedy told Congress, April 20, 1961: "Introduced during the war when the income tax was extended to millions of new taxpayers, the wage-withholding system has been one of the most important and successful advances in our tax system in recent times ... Initial difficulties were quickly overcome, and the new system helped the taxpayer no less than the tax collector."

Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 12, 2023 • Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison • Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" • Louisa May Alcott • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Theodore Parker • William Ellery Channing

"America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

July 12, 2023 • 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."

"Old Ironsides" USS Constitution -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., & his dissenting son - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 12, 2023 • "Old Ironsides" USS Constitution - Oliver Wendell Holmes • & his dissenting son • Sr.

The USS Constitution was about to be decommissioned and broken into scrap when it was saved by a poem titled "Old Ironsides," written by poet, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: