What bugs me, and what I run into, a lot, are people who have no clue that the most used source, of the Founding Fathers, in writing the United States Constitution, was the Holy Bible. People do not understand the Bible is the very foundation of self-governance. In the words of James Madison, “We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.”
Nor do they understand the words of John Adams, “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Then, of course, there is Edmund Burke. While not a Founding Father, he really does define God’s Law or Natural Law quite well, “Freedom without virtue is not freedom, but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man’s right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites, the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.”
Lynn