At the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin stated his belief that public servants should not be paid a salary, for in paying the civil service, our government would not be made of “the wise and the moderate … the men fittest for the trust” but instead by “the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions … in their selfish pursuits.”
Salaries were a slippery slope that would invariably lead to capture and corruption. Ben lost the salary fight and federal employees were paid, but his worries about the corrupting influence of private gain on public operations came true.
https://public.resource.org/currents/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2495738/posts
http://www.policyalmanac.org/government/archive/constitution.shtml
Samuel Johnston: “It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.[Elliot’s Debates, Vol. IV, pp 198-199, Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30, 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention."
http://books.google.com/books?id=vAU-_EISx4EC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=Samuel+Johnston:+%E2%80%9CIt+is+apprehended+that+Jews,+Mahometans+(Muslims),+pagans,+etc.,+may+be+elected+to+high+offices+under+the+government+of+the+United+States&source=bl&ots=NTPBcqM5Gr&sig=M6h8O96p07IYQ5021HDhGR7A_64&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RZa7UubrM8-2kAez7IHQCg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Samuel%20Johnston%3A%20%E2%80%9CIt%20is%20apprehended%20that%20Jews%2C%20Mahometans%20(Muslims)%2C%20pagans%2C%20etc.%2C%20may%20be%20elected%20to%20high%20offices%20under%20the%20government%20of%20the%20United%20States&f=false
http://www.lc.org/resources/myth_of_separation_church_state.html
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/120251
Whereas in 1789, Congress, in the midst of framing the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, passed the first Federal law touching education, declaring that `Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged’;
http://www.allabouthistory.org/spiritual-heritage-and-the-bill-of-rights-faq.htm
Jefferson: We anti-Federalists also fear the tyranny and loss of local liberty and independence that goes with a powerful centralized government, and the remedy for them was to ensure that the national government, however necessary, was not made too strong. That’s why we fought such a protracted Revolutionary War – to remove monarchical rule, to secure our liberty to govern ourselves as free citizens under God and Natural Law.
Read more at: http://www.wnd.com/2010/09/201729/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/90942.Noah_Webster
Read more at: http://www.wnd.com/2010/09/201729/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/90942.Noah_Webster
All Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1806 results for Men of Christian Character, or men of Godly Character: ( These definition has been removed from google search )
Literati, n. pl. the learned, men of learning
Literati, n. pl. the learned, men of learning
Main Entry: social democracy
Function: noun Date: 1850
1 : a political movement advocating a gradual and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means 2 : a democratic welfare state that incorporates both capitalist and socialist practices — social democrat noun — social democratic adjective
republic
REPUB’LIC, n. [L. respublica; res and publica; public affairs.]
1. A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.2. Common interest; the public. [Not in use.]
Republic of letters, the collective body of learned men.
http://www.lexrex.com/catalog/web_def.htm
Faith in History -- James Warren and "Helvitius Priscus" - YouTube
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