American Government and Law

American Government and Law

I have listed some “Must Reads” along the sidebar of this blog. I just began reading History of American Government and Law by: Vaughn Shatzer. The decline of this country has me amazed and baffled, but I now realize after reading this book why this country is in the predicament that we are in!
This country has become lazy, self-serving, and dependent on everyone else. Kids now days have no idea of what “work ethic” means. More than that, all sense of morality is gone from this country. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter.

For centuries and up until the early 1960's America has been blessed above all nations of the earth. We have had more freedom, liberty, prosperity, and privileges than any nation in the world. I can remember when our cities, schools, workplaces, churches, and streets were safe. Children were considered to be a heritage from the Lord. Our public schools made sure our children could read the Word of God, recite the Lord's Prayer, pledge allegiance to our flag, and understood our God-given unalienable rights and freedoms. We not only displayed the Ten Commandments in our schools, courtrooms, and churches, we obeyed them. Evildoers were judged and punished speedily. All nations of the world respected and feared America.

Sadly, the America established by our forefathers has radically changed. We now have same-sex marriages, men and woman having sex change operations, the horrible partial-birth abortion, the selling of aborted baby body parts, the killer abortion drug RU-486, suicide machines, school children killing school children, free condom distribution in our public schools, kiddy porn, satanic rock-and-roll and rap music, and a host of other perversions. In recent years America has been number one in the world in violent crimes, illegal drug use, divorce, teenage pregnancies, and voluntary abortions.

How did America go from being the greatest nation on earth, to being a world leader in such notorious categories? Our foundations have been destroyed. Psalm 11:3 states, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Vaughn Shatzer continues to explain and prove how our nation and laws were founded on Christianity. He gives quotes from the first law books, Blackstone's Commentaries on Law, that were used for about one hundred and sixty years by American lawyers, courts, the U.S. Senate, and law schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Here is another excerpt from this book.

Other sections of the sixteen hundred pages of Blackstone's Commentaries on Law would use footnotes at the bottom of the pages which gave reference to the Holy Scriptures. Just a few examples include the crime of murder with the footnote referring to Genesis 9:6 and Numbers 35:31, rape-Deuteronomy 22:25; divorce-Matthew 19:9; and kidnapping-Exodus 21:16. There is a whole chapter in Blackstone's Laws on “Offenses Against God and Christianity, including everything from blasphemy and drunkenness to witchcraft, fornication, and obscene prints(pornography). One section under apostasy states:

...If any person educated in the Christian religion, or (a) professing [Christian]...shall by writing, printing, teaching, or speaking deny the Christian religion to be true, deny the Holy Scriptures to be of divine authority...or deny any one of the persons of the Holy Trinity to be God...he...shall suffer...penalties...thee years imprisonment...

The more I read, the more I was amazed at how far this country has come from its founding days. Tomorrow is election day and I wish I would have read this book sooner to get this message out before now. This country needs to change it's ways. People were looking for change but instead they needed to go back to how our country was started...having God and the Bible the foundation of American government and Law.
If you are interested in reading more about how far our laws have changed since they were originally written, you can purchase this book by clicking on the highlighted book name History of American Government and Law.
 
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