Book offers insight into country's founding
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Editor,
The book by W. Cleon Skousen, "The 5,000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World," is where you will find one of the most comprehensive records of the founding of the United States of America that is available. This book is a real eye-opener and should be required reading for every citizen of this country. Following is a list of the 28 principles explained in the book that guided the founders of this country as they designed a free-people nation and wrote the Constitution, giving freedom, equality and justice to all.
Principles: 1) The Genius of Natural Law; 2) A Virtuous and Moral People; 3) Virtuous and Moral Leaders; 4) The Role of Religion; 5) The Role of the Creator; 6) All Men are Created Equal; 7) Equal Rights, Not Equal Things; 8) Man’s Unalienable Rights; 9) The Role of Revealed Law; 10) Sovereignty of the People; 11) Who Can Alter the Government?; 12) Advantages of a Republic; 13) Protection Against Human Frailty; 14) Property Rights Essential to Liberty; 15) Free-market Economics; 16) The Separation of Powers; 17) Checks and Balances; 18) Importance of a Written Constitution; 19) Limiting and Defining the Power of the Government; 20) Majority Rule, Minority Rights; 21) Strong Local Self-government; 22) Government by Law, Not by Men; 23) Importance of an Educated Electorate; 24) Peace Through Strength; 25) Avoid Entangling Alliances; 26) Protecting the Role of the Family; 27) Avoiding the Burden of Debt and 28) The Founders’ Sense of Manifest Destiny.
It is the observance of these 28 principles during the past 200 years in America that has brought about greater progress of civilization than was made in the previous 5,000, and I would encourage anyone interested in learning more to read the book. Copies have been donated to the Polson library and can be purchased at the Miracle of America Museum for a nominal fee.
Dick Matejovsky
Polson
