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Title & Dedication
Introduction
Part 1 - The Founders' Monumental Task: Structuring a Government with all the Power in the People
1st Principle: The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law.
2nd Principle: A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
3rd Principle: The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.
4th Principle: Without religion the government of a free people cannot he maintained.
5th Principle: All things were created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.
6th Principle: All men are created equal.
7th Principle: The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
8th Principle: Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
9th Principle: To protect man's rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
10th Principle: The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
11th Principle: The majority of the people may alter or abolisha government which has become tyrannical.
12th Principle: The United States of America shall be a republic.
13th Principle: A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
14th Principle: Life and liberty are secure only so long as the right to property is secure.
15th Principle: The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
16th Principle: The government should be separated into three branches – legislative, executive, and, judicial.
17th Principle: A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power by the different branches of government.
18th Principle: The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to he preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written constitution.
19th Principle: Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained in the people.
20th Principle: Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must he made to protect the rights of the minority.
21th Principle: Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
22th Principle: A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
23th Principle: A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
24th Principle: A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.
25th Principle: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.” --Thomas Jefferson
26th Principle: The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
27th Principle: The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
28th Principle: The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.