Our Founding Fathers established a Republican form of Government to safeguard individual rights and prevent the tyranny of the majority or the government itself. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “The majority recognizes these two barriers; and if it now and then oversteps them, it is because, like individuals, it has passions, and like them, it is prone to do what is wrong, while it discerns what is right.”
They empowered Americans to pursue their goals without harming others and ensured government would be controlled by the consent of the governed. They understood the Bible as the governing document and had a Biblical worldview, conducting the nation’s affairs accordingly.
Tocqueville exclaimed, “Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic… than in the monarchy… and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity?”
The Founders established schools to ensure young people could read the Bible, be schooled in the principles of liberty and self-governance, and maintain a Biblical worldview from generation to generation.
Yet, as Washington warned, “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” have subverted the power of the people and usurped the reins of government, destroying the very engines that lifted them to unjust dominion.
Today, the American people find themselves governed by force instead of consent, surrounded by laws and mandates not written for their benefit but for the oligarchs in control. It’s time to implement the Northwest Ordinance to RESET America and restore the vision of our Founding Fathers.
