Quotes and Realities
- God Our Refuge And Strength
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"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.... Come and see the works of the Lord, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. 'Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.' "
- Psalm 46:1-3, 8-10 (NIV)
- James Wilson
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"All [laws], however, may be arranged in two different classes. 1) Divine. 2) Human.... But it should always be remembered that this law, natural or revealed, made for men or for nations, flows from the same Divine source: it is the law of God.... Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine."
- James Wilson: Attorney, Educator, Jurist; born in Scotland, member of the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence, member of the Board of War, delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he signed the Federal Constitution, delegate to the State ratification convention for the Federal Constitution, appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court as one of its original Justices by President George Washington, authored much of the Pennsylvania state constitution, first professor of Law in the College of Philadelphia and in the University of Pennsylvania, co-authored with Thomas McKean America's first Commentaries on the Constitution, founded the first organized legal training in America, was one of only six men who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 343: originally quoted from Wilson, James, The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, edited by Wilson, Bird (Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804), Vol. I, 103-105, “Of the General Principles of Law and Obligation.”
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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