Today's American Minute

Right of "the PEOPLE" to Keep & Bear Arms - Inspired by Ancient Israel: "To make yourself powerless is to invite an attack!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 07, 2023 • Right of "the PEOPLE" to Keep & Bear Arms - Inspired by Ancient Israel: "To make yourself powerless is to invite an attack!"

Denver University Law Review, July15, 2013 published an article "Ancient Hebrew Militia Law," by David B.Kopel, in which he wrote: "New Englanders intensely self-identified with ancient Israel ... Every male 'from the age of twenty years up, all those in Israel who are able to bear arms' ... were obliged to fight, to go forth 'armed to battle' ... Israel relied on a militia, in which citizen soldiers would spend most of their time cultivating their farms, or engaged in other economic production, and would fight only for limited periods (ideally, after the harvest), and only when necessary ... Similarly, during the American Revolution, most men served in their state militias."

"Remember the Alamo-Remember Goliad": History of New Spain & Texas Independence - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 05, 2023 • "Remember the Alamo-Remember Goliad": History of New Spain & Texas Independence

The Texas Declaration ended: "We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas ... DECLARE, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas, do now constitute a FREE, SOVEREIGN, and INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC ... Conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme Arbiter of the destinies of nations."

"Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862 - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 05, 2023 • "Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle • 1862

In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: "We now have a few words of the Jews of the United States in general ... The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America ... They ... in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe."

Christians pioneered Anti-Slavery Movement: Quaker Anthony Benezet to JQA to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 01, 2023 • Some Anti-Slavery Champions: Quaker Anthony Benezet to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer

The original 1856 Republican platform was: "Resolved ... it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy and Slavery."

Will Civilization Survive? - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 27, 2023 • Will Civilization Survive?

Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, spoke against joining the League of Nation, August 12, 1919: "The United States is the world's best hope ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and CIVILIZATION everywhere will go down in ruin."