Constitution: Organizing Principles
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I. CONSTITUTION: ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES
- America’s Heritage: Constitutional Liberty:
- Introduction
- Law and America’s Constitutions
- Covenant and Constitutions
- A Common People, A Common Law
- A Federal Republic
- Separation of Civil Powers
- Legislative and Executive Powers
- Judicial Power & Judicial Review
- Taxing & Spending
- Jurisdiction and Liberty
- Reclaiming Dominion
- A Righteous Example
- Restoring the Rule of Law
- A Covenant People
- Civil Government: Its True Human Origin, Limited Jurisdiction & Application to American Government
- PART 1: CIVIL GOVERNMENT: A Biblical Examination of Its True Human Origin and Limited Jurisdiction
- Ch. 1. What is the True Origin and Jurisdiction of Civil Government?
- Ch. 2. What Was The First Government God Instituted?
- Ch. 3. Did Family Government Fail to Govern Mankind Before the Flood?
- Ch. 4. What is Right and Wrong? Who Has God Given Enforcement Authority?
- Ch. 5. What Do Languages and Nations Have to Do with Family?
- Ch. 6. Why is Abraham’s Covenant of Nations, Kings and Specific Land Not a Model for the Nations?
- Ch. 7. Why was Moses not a King or Supreme Judge, but a Ruler and Redeemer by God’s Design?
- Ch. 8. Was God the King of Israel by His Command or the People’s Consent?
- Ch. 9. Why Did God send Judges to Israel?
- Ch. 10. What Advice Does God Give to Limit Our Civil Governments?
- Ch. 11. Do We Love Kings that Love War?
- Ch. 12. The End of Kings, but not Lawless Kingdoms?
- Ch. 13. What Evils Plague The Nations?
- Ch. 14. Are Civil Governments of Human or Divine Origin?
- Ch. 15. Is Every Government under God, in a Jurisdictional Sense?
- PART 2: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT According To The Bible, The Declaration Of Independence and The Constitution
- Ch. 16. Does the Declaration of Independence Respect God’s Authority over Nations?
- Ch. 17. Does the Declaration Express the Law of Nature of Equality?
- Ch. 18. Does the Declaration Express the Law of Nature of Unalienable Rights?
- Ch. 19. Does the Declaration Express the Law of Nature of Consent?
- Ch. 20. Does the Declaration Express the Law of Nature of Altering or Abolishing a Civil Government?
- Ch. 21. Does the Declaration Express the Law of Nature regarding Organization Of Governmental Powers?
- Ch. 22. How Are Declarations of Independence Viewed by God?
- Ch. 23. What Actions of Civil Government are Predictable According to The Laws Of Nature’s God?
- Ch. 24. Are the Declaration’s Grievances Found in the Laws of Nature’s God?
- Conclusion