Ok folks. We are Living

out the Anti-federalists perspective of Federalist #10 yet we are not

even close to finishing our understanding or application of Madison’s

words here. In this program I will be delving into more of the heart

of the vanity to expect that there will be a continuum of

‘enlightened statesmen’ and the ‘Causes and Effects’ of Factions.

I bring you into a little

clearing understanding of Madison’s thought process here by going

back to Witherspoon’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy. We need the

background info to understand the heart of this Framer of the

Constitution.

References:

Madison gets to the

makeup of factions whether majority or minority. Then into how is

this controlled in a Republic through a Constitution.

We are only about half

way through Federalist #10. There is much more especially since in

the program after next I will get into Madison’s definition of

‘democracy’ and why only federalism formed in republican principles

wrapped in a functional Constitution can work in America.

Oh, Hold on to your sock

for next week! I am going to get into all the technical, political

and Liberty reasons of why I’m changing it up on social media as well

as what is forthcoming with a new medial company that I have

launched.

And because you keep

asking!

References:

The video of

the program is at the SamuelAdamsReturns

YouTube channel

1. Witherspoon: Lectures

on Moral Philosophy (Society)

2. Federalist

#10

3. Anti-federalist

#10

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The many turns of life

did not facilitate the mid week discussion that I was intending

regarding the relationship of Madison to John Witherspoon. Therefore,

this week I bring in the interesting tidbits about Madison and a good

deal about John Witherspoon.

What is striking about

Witherspoon is detailed in the ‘Introduction’ of the reference

containing his ‘Lecture on Moral Philosophy’ or as otherwise titled

‘Moral Society’. What caught me is the reality that many of the

pastors in the US are even more now of the Moderatist perspective

then like Witherspoon who was a Populist in the church debates in

Scotland. So that you don’t have to look it up, which most of you

would not do, here is the quote from the Intro for clarification:

References:

“The Scottish Church at

this period was in the midst of a struggle between two parties known

as the Moderate and the Popular. Moderatism voiced the new spirit of

the age, the new element of liberalism permeating the Church. It was,

moreover, as Scottish historians have pointed out, an ecclesiastical

policy whose chief feature was the absolute enforcement of the

aristocratic law of patronage, whereby in practical disregard of

parishioners concerned, church livings were at the disposal of

patrons. The Popular party, on the other hand, was the conservative

and strictly orthodox party. It earnestly combatted the decline of

personal religion and the relaxation of the old standards of faith

and conduct, which it claimed were results of the rising tide of

liberalism; and it opposed strenuously the undemocratic features of

the patronage law. With this party Mr.Witherspoon identified himself,

and speedily became its leading champion. All of his early

publications owe their inception to this struggle, his anonymous

“Ecclesiastical Characteristics” (1753), a bit- ing satire

on the Moderates, being the best known and passing through several

editions, although his “Essay on Justification” (1756), his

“Serious Enquiry into the Stage” (1757), directly inspired

by the famous “Doug- las” controversy, and a group of

doctrinal sermons print- ed in 1758 and republished in a three volume

edition in 1764, with an important additional “Essay on

Regeneration”, savored more of his calling and won for him

reputation as a dauntless defender of personal piety and simple

evangelical truth.” I don’t have time to get to what I believe is

the cross pollination of Moderatism even into ‘Biblical Evangelical’

Churches in the US such that they are in the least – take on the

‘enforcement of aristocratical law of patronage’ concepts over the

foundational principles core to the American Revolution. My

simplistic way of saying they misspeak Romans 13. But that is for a

midweek conversation.

Getting back to James

Madison, he was a student of Witherspoon and although unique in his

studies, he obviously gained much insight to the over all perspective

of the true Reformation principles regarding a Christian involvement

in governance. Witherspoon lived the example as a Minister, President

of Princeton and Political Patriot Leader serving the Citizenry.

I get back to Federalist

#10, which I will not finish since there is so much to delve into

that is so pertinent to the present. The key is that although there

will always be ‘Factions’ in civil society, the principles of

self-governance should be the dominant guide for executing the core

Emotionalism is everywhere in all the

media and the technology giants are determining what we should think

and believe. Yes, these are in essence the words of Madison in

Federalist #10. As I always say from Proverbs 1:9 – “There is

Nothing New under the sun”!

This discussion will take more than one

program to cover. I’m only touching the very tip of the iceberg in

that the use of emotionalism (passion) is nothing new and that

‘faction’ has always been detriment to Liberty. I get into Madison’s

definition of ‘faction’ and that there are ways of dealing with it

that in the general sense are what we are seeing from the technology

sector and even in legislation; neither of which are the correct way,

according to Madison.

References:

Just a late note that was note that was not in the News Letter, Cathy was listening to the Thursday 8-9 Rush program which she heard him mentioning Federalist #10. Well it turns out it was a subversive NYT Opinion Piece titled “Democracy and the Demagogue” By Jason Stanley October 12, 2015 3:45 am; where Mr. Stanley as a true Hegelian deceptively uses a quote from Madison out of Federalist #10.

With this, I will open the program

discussing changes we are doing with the web site and some ideas of

looking for other live venues/stations to participate on. That will

take funding since the live stations want you to have advertising

commitments. So if you find value in the programing then let me know

of folks / companies that would be interested in sponsorship.

Additionally, we moved our web site to

mediaserve.com. They are a super patriotic hosting company who has

been hosting churches, video streaming and general/business web sites

for a long while. We are very happy to support this company by moving

our business to them.

Lastly, we will be doing more video

blogging and putting that up on samueladamsreturns.net. We will

eventually leave YouTube since they are one of the technology

companies that are attempting to shape thought and actions as Madison

discusses in Federalist #10. Same is true with Facebook. We will have

all content off of FB by the end of August. My question to you is:

will we truly stand on principles and stop the insanity or will we

compromise because things appear to be ‘free’? I have already moved

to eaglefirepost.com

And because you keep asking!

References:

1. Federalist

#10

2. Anti-federalist

#10

The fact and reality is: That Christians in the these United States are to be full Participants, Actively, in governing. Sam Adams exemplifies this in his penning of the “INSTRUCTIONS OF HE TOWN OF BOSTON TO ITS REPRESENTATIVES IN THE GENERAL COURT. MAY, 1764”, which according to the Colonial Charters set up participatory self-rule for the citizenry. Not only is it necessary to participate in self-governance but it is fact that a community, a county, a State and Nation can legislate morality. If they do not then the citizenry allows immorality to become the law to the detriment of the general community.

Now, This ‘Instruction’ addressed the despotism coming from the mother country and required responses via the ‘Lesser Magistrates’ elected by the people, most of whom were in fact Christians, to address the issues at had to the national government and the King. Those issues being Morality, Religious Liberty, Commerce and Manufacturing.

Since Sam Adams studied John Knox, Calvin and the other Reformers – He knew that the process of redress through the elected is proper even mandatory in a ‘Representative’ form of governance. Adams clearly addresses the ‘English Constitutionality’ of the people as sovereigns and the Reformation Principle of ‘Appealing’ to the ‘Lesser Magistrates’ to further the Liberty and happiness of the general public.

It is beyond comprehension and an absolute misrepresentation of Biblical Reformation and Colonial Principles for pastors, priest and rabbi’s to tell their congregations that they should ‘not be involved’, ‘fully submit to the government authority’, and ‘pay your taxes without complaint’. When tyranny and despotism are obvious and those elected are not acting as the agents of the Moral Sovereign of the Universe – Then is in this Constitutional Republic the absolute right and responsibility to call for redress and actively act against tyranny and despotism.

We have so much more to learn from our Founders and their original intent for good governance which is based on Reformation Biblical Principles.

Join me on the program to value the Founders perspective of the mirrors of history and the reality of the present.

And because you keep asking!

References:

1. Sam Adams – INSTRUCTIONS OF HE TOWN OF BOSTON TO ITS REPRESENTATIVES IN THE GENERAL COURT. MAY, 1764. ‘Writings of Samuel Adams Volume I, Page 1′ [MS., Boston Public Library; a text appears in Boston Record Commissioners’ Report, vol. 16, pp. 120-122.]

2. John Knox – Appellation

I was invited once again to join Chris Arnzen on his program Iron-Sharpens-Iron heard every week day from 4 PM to 6 PM Eastern.

On this program we discussed my book “Not ALL Conservatives Are Constitutionalists“.

I really enjoyed the interview and it is always an honor to be invited to Chris’ Program.

Thank you Chris for a wonderful discussion and opportunity!

A short introduction and synopsis of Calvin regarding biblical government. Calvin argued that the office of the magistrate was “a most sacred office,” a noble profession worthy of any Christian’s respect. Magistrates were “the viceregents of God,” said Calvin, established by his authority and accountable to him for their actions. Even tyranny was preferable to anarchy, and only where the tyrant contradicted the commands of God was peaceful resistance warranted. [Institutes Book IV Chapter 20] According to Calvin, government had a divinely-instituted purpose: to protect the public order and defend God’s moral law. When it came to the question of how best to order the state, Calvin offered an opinion: a mix of republicanism and aristocracy. I have no capacity in this short order to get to all that can be discussed back and forth as to all that Calvin proposes and even rejects in this chapter. But for me, the bottom line is that we now have a Constitutional Republic and that is what must be supported and kept in good order for good government. Yes and Christians have a responsibility in doing so.

In the last two segments I again do not have time to fully contrast what Hamilton writes in the referenced Federalists Papers nor do I get into the details of Yates writing as Brutus which predicts our present Judicial system breakdown. The Courts have in every essence fulfilled all that Hamilton indicated would be their jurisdictional authority… and then some. With this short time we have, I am taking you through only a couple high level points of Hamilton’s approval of the structure and intent of Article III that has more than exceeded any perspective of his simplicity in argument for the supremacy of the Court.

Join me on the program to value the Founders perspective of the mirrors of history and the reality of the present.

And because you keep asking!

References:

The video of the program is at the SamuelAdamsReturns YouTube channel

1. Calvin Institutes Book IV Chapter 20: Of Civil Government

2. The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543), Calvin

3. Federalist Papers No. 78 through #82

4. Calvin and the American Quest for Liberty, HANS A. ZEIGER

5. John Knox – Appellation

This week is simple: In the first segment I give a quick update from the founders perspective on the Supreme Court Nomination and the hellacious noises from the Court steps to the main stream media. The last two segments are regarding ‘What’ Sam Adams had to say about voting and how we should vet candidates as well as develop future leaders through morality in education. He said this: “As Piety, Religion and Morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God, their instructors and each other, so that when they arrive to a state of manhood, and take a part in any public transactions, their hearts having been deeply impressed in the course of their education with the moral feelings—such feelings may continue and have their due weight through the whole of their future lives.”

References for today are the four volumes of Sam Adams writings:

Voting and judiciary

On voting : 1764 through 1769 focus on the Free Elections of the American Citizenry with local representatives and taxing authority by charter Not of Parliament.

* 1766: We were summoned and convened here to give our free suffrages at the general election, directed to be annually made by the royal charter. We have given our suffrages according to the dictates of our consciences, and the best light of our understanding. It was certainly our right to choose, and as clearly a constitutional power in your Excellency to disapprove, without assigning a reason either before or after your dissent.. Your Excellency has thought proper to disapprove of some. We are far even from suggesting that the country has by this means been deprived of its best and ablest servants. We have released those of the Judges of the Superior Court who had the honor of a seat at the Board, from the cares and perplexities of politics, and given them opportunity to make still farther advances in the knowledge of the law, and to administer right and justice within this jurisdiction.

* We hold ourselves to be quite free in our suffrages ; and provided we observe the directions of our charter, and the laws of the land, both which we have strictly adhered to, we are by no means accountable but to God and our own consciences for the manner in which we give them. We believe your Excellency is the first Governor of this province that ever form ally called the two Houses of Assembly to account for their suffrages, and accused them of ingratitude and disaffection to the Crown, because they had not bestowed them on such persons as in the opinion of the Governor, were quite necessary to the administration of government. Had your Excellency been pleased in season to have favored us with a list, and positive orders whom to choose, we should, on your principles have been without excuse. But even the most abject slaves are not to be blamed for disobey ing their master s will and pleasure when it is wholly unknown to them.

* We would hope that your Excellency does not mean open and publicly to threaten us with a deprivation of our charter privileges, merely for exercising them according to our best judgment and discretion. As to us, as our charter is, we should think it of very little value, if it should be adjudged that the sense and spirit of it require the electors should be under the absolute direction and control of the Chair, even in giving their suffrages. For what ever may be our ideas of the wisdom, prudence, mild ness and moderation of your administration, of your forgiving spirit,

The Vindication of the Founders of the Nation is required even more so now in the congregation of the churches where Liberty in its totality once rang true.

As I was preparing for this program I received and email that has taken me down a completely different course than I intended. The article by Dr. Joel McDurmon title “Sam Adams to America: “I told you so.”” vindicates all that I have been doing these many years as Sam Adams as well as my diatribe that the Anti-federalists ‘Got It Right’! Great article so click on the link in this paragraph or in the References to read it.

With this past Wednesday being ‘Independence Day’ – I want to remind you of the word of Sam Adams as he was asked to give his perspective related to the Declaration of Independence. He spoke about this Action on August 1, 1776 – the day before the final signatures were affixed to the completed document.

The issues of how this American government should work will be the continuing conversation for the month of July. We will explore it from the Anti-federalists perspective as we see that all that is in the media was predicted. Hence Sam Adams and the Anti-federalists Got IT Right!

And because you keep asking!

References:

The video of the program is at the SamuelAdamsReturns YouTube chanel

1. Samuel Adams Speech on the Declaration of Independence: August 1, 1776

2. Dr. Joel McDurmon – Sam Adams to America: “I told you so.”

Ones I can’t let go related to the conversation and must keep in front of you:

Adding one for all to get: Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate

If you are a Christian then this is a must for these present times: Tactics of Christian Resistance by Dr. Gary North

From the Pulpits in the Foundation: Ellis Sandoz, Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730-1805, 2 volumes

All the noise, I mean news, that has been released on the DOJ/FBI report is already in the spin cycle of  every so called news outlets…. out there. Yet, what is truth? How does one discern fact from fiction?

I mention the Seminar based on my book, From Covenant To The Present Constitution, which there was still time to register for this time of digging into truth. I will discuss that there is a why to get discernment but it requires a relationship with the living God.

Lastly I take us back once again to Melancton Smith who in all substance nails the FBI IG report and much more. Simply put, Mr. Smith Got It!

Primary Reference is “Melancton Smith, New York Ratifying Convention”

Evangelicals are confused as they deal with the difficult question regarding participation in governance especially when looking at the national government. This conundrum is not new! Sam Adams had to deal with it during debates in the 1776 Continental Congress and the media.

Imagine that – Contrarian positions appearing in the media and of a religious/denominational nature. Sam Adams responds to the Quakers who want to submit to the King. They held a ‘convention’ from which came a declaration abhorring Paine’s “Common Sense” and any such writings let alone separating from Great Britain. The Quakers argued a position of Divine Providence that attempted to convince readers that it was ‘against God’ that the Colonial uprising was taking a position in the idea of separation from Great Britain.

Samuel Adams gave a greater and stronger public media response that discussed Gods actions in history with Biblical soundness.

Quoting from Volume II of the Life of Samuel Adams, “Mr. Adams accepted this religious, providential view of the question, and replied soon after, showing by historical examples, that as the rise and fall of empires and rulers was within the special prerogative of God, the present revolution was none the less the result of omnipotent design, and that in God’s providence, the time for the establishment of an independent commonwealth in the West had arrived. Men were but the instruments in his hands for such purposes. Divine will had evidently selected the present moment for the separation of America from Great Britain. This essay, like the Quakers’ address, was directed to the ” People in General.”

There is much more in this letter that I have copied to the references below since you will otherwise never no look for the full source to read. The relevance of Sam’s writing HITs hard for this very present moment!

References:

Ones I can’t let go from in front of you:     

Adding one for all to get: Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate

If you are a Christian then this is a must for these present times: Tactics of Christian Resistance by Dr. Gary North

From the Pulpits in the Foundation: Ellis Sandoz, Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730-1805, 2 volumes

Today’s Primary Reference:

From Volume II pages 369 – 375 of The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams

“The convention of Quakers already alluded to had been called more especially in view of the extraordinary effect of Paine’s ” Common Sense,” which was now in everybody’s hands, and was praised or attacked throughout America. That the Quakers ” abhorred ” such writing was one of the best proofs of its effectiveness. That body, in counselling submission and continued dependence upon Great Britain, had in their address spoken of changes in government ” as affecting every mind with the most awful considerations of the dispensations of Divine Providence to mankind in general in former ages, and that as the sins and iniquities of the people had in ancient times subjected them to grievous sufferings, the same causes might still produce the like effects.” They then quote certain ancient testimony to prove that

“The setting up and putting down kings and governments is God’s peculiar prerogative for causes best known to himself, and that it is not our business to have any hand or contrivance therein ; nor to be busybodies above our station, much less to plot and contrive the ruin or overturn of any of them, but to pray for the King and safety of our nation and good of all men; that we may live a peaceable and quiet life in all g...