Samuel Adams quote - Important today!

University of Chicago - The Founder's Constitution ^ | 11/4/1775 | Samuel Adams

[Publius]

But the Federalist Papers have many references to Democracy, all bad.

In the Federalist papers we're covering in the next few weeks, a democracy is contrasted with a republic. The result is that the conditions for a democracy are different from the conditions for a republic. It's scholarly criticism, not a condemnation.

[Loud Mime]

From Federalist 10, which has been already covered:

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

The readers may use the above link to read the context of the paper.

[Bigun]

The founders abhorred the idea of a democracy and that is a fact!

[Steve Van Doorn]

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion....Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -Sam Adams 1798

Great video:
Is America A Christian Nation? - David Barton

[Steve Van Doorn]

Is that why one of the first acts of congress after yorktown was to print bibles for all the schools in the country?

[wastedyears]

Never knew they made something like it, never seen it either. I just posted the picture because it was article about Samuel Adams’ words.

[Loud Mime]

I’ve never seen anything like that either.

In Germany they had a dark bier called Kulmbacher 28. It was 28% alcohol....56 proof!

My brother and I once shared a couple of bottles; he said it had been a LONG time since he felt that way after 2 beers.

[justa-hairyape]

Looks tasty.

If you want to know where the US is heading, just look at the Bay Area of Kalifornia and its sister region Mexico. Nothing but a bunch of small time mobsters controlling a majority of the private and public sectors. If you want to know what a big time mobster looks like, just look below.

Not a bad gig if you are near the top of that pyramid.

[Rocky]

Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected...

Dedicated to all those liberals who said that Clinton's private dalliances had nothing to do with his performance as President.

[Loud Mime]

That picture irritates the **** out of me!