Today's American Minute

"'Wall of Separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 21, 2023 • "'Wall of Separation • ' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in ACLU v Mercer County, 2006: "The ACLU makes repeated reference to 'the separation of church and state.' This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome.

The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation's history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion."

John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion, His Lifetime of Public Service, Guided by Bible - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 19, 2023 • Guided by Bible • His Lifetime of Public Service • John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion

In Congress, he earned the nicknamed "The Hell-Hound of Slavery" for relentlessly speaking out against slavery. He single-handedly led the fight to lift the Gag Rule which prohibited discussion of slavery on the House floor. As a result, Southern Democrats tried to have him censured in 1837. In 1839, he introduced a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in all new states entering the Union.

Founding Influences, particularly the Three Eras of Masons

February 19, 2023 • Founding Influences • particularly the Three Eras of Masons

The three eras of Masons could be identified as: First, Medieval stone workers who built defense works for kings; Second, revolutionary political dissidents who met in secret to plot against kings; Third, after France's Revolution, unspecified influences of French infidelity, Jacobins, and Illuminati, though not of cognizance to the general membership.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American Fireside Poet - "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 18, 2023

In 1842, Longfellow expressed his public support for abolishing slavery by publishing a collection, Poems on Slavery, which was reprinted by The New England Anti-Slavery Association.

Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets, his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 16, 2023 • his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul • Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets

Hugo stated: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."