- #FOUND1 In what country do you live? In the United States of America.
- #FOUND2 Why is this country called the United States of America? Because it is made up of a number of States which were once separate, but afterwards agreed to unite together for specific purposes.
- #FOUND3 What is meant by "state?" By "state" is meant any district or country whose people are all under a common government.
- #FOUND4 Had then the different States which united together each a government of its own? Yes; but they agreed to put themselves all under one general or federal government.
- #FOUND5 Why did they do this? To accomplish certain tasks easier than could be done alone.
- #FOUND6 Is a governmental framework necessary to every country? Certainly; with no governmental framework, our property and liberties would be in jeopardy.
- #FOUND7 Cannot all the people of a country govern themselves? No. God instituted government to punish the wicked and reward the good by administering justice.
- #FOUND8 How is this done? Laws are enacted which must be obeyed by all; with disobedience bringing punishment by the government through the exercise of force.
- #FOUND9 Who enacts these laws? In America laws must be legislated; that is, they are passed into law by elected legislatures. Occasionally, men try to pronounce laws that are not passed by such a legislative process.
- #FOUND10 What is such a non legislative government called? This kind of government, one in which laws are made binding without passing a legislatures, is called despotism or tyranny.
- #FOUND11 Why are laws passed by legislatures, and not directly by the people? That is called a democracy, but America is not a democracy. We are a representative republic, wherein we vote officials into power to legislate on our behalf.
- #FOUND12 Why is America not a democracy? It is impractical for all the people to gather in a single assembly. Likewise, not all people have the moral, mental or spiritual aptitude to directly govern through democracy.
- #FOUND13 Which of these ways of governing a nation is best? The best government governs the least, while yet protecting life, liberty and property.
- #FOUND14 Why do people obey government? Because the government has the legal means to punish by the forced confiscation of property and the exercising of violence upon those who disobey.
- #FOUND15 Cannot the people resist the government? This has sometimes been done, and is sometimes necessary. There are certain ways to resist governmental power that are legal, and others that are not.
- #REV16 Was America always a Republic? No, she was once a collection of colonies.
- #REV17 What do you mean by colonies? A colony is a group of citizens of a nation, who settle themselves in a different land under the auspices of their home nation, and hence continue to be ultimately governed by that home nation.
- #REV18 By what nation were the American colonies governed? The colonies that first created the United States by their union were governed by Great Britain.
- #REV19 From where did the laws come that governed the colonies from Great Britain? The laws inherited by the colonists came from what is called English Common Law and Social Compact Theory.
- #REV20 Were these laws good and wise? Many of them were; and for a time the colonies were blessed by their relationship with Great Britain. But over time, unjust laws were passed upon these colonies which threatened their reasonable liber...
- #REV21 What was the colonies' response to these unjust laws? They issued complaints, and for a time reasoned with Great Britain, in an attempt to persuade her to see her error and govern more justly.
- #REV22 Did Great Britain heed their complaints and repeal these unjust laws? No, but instead she deployed her navy and army threatening the colonies with confiscation of their wealth and violence toward their persons if their compliance was not forthcoming.
- #REV23 And did they obey? No; the people of the colonies consulted with each other what was to be done, and at length took up arms, raised such armies as they could, and though they had few soldiers, no experienced officers, a...
- #REV24 Did the colonists sin against God by rebelling against Great Britain? No, not at all. Great Britain surrendered the colonists as their citizens when they denied them representation in Parliament. The colonists were citizens where they were represented, which was in thei...
- #REV25 When the citizens of the colonies declared their independence, what was Great Britain's response? Great Britain continued to confiscate the wealth and commit violence upon the citizens of the colonies, and thus provoke a state of war.
- #REV26 When we speak of this war, what do we call it? We call it the American Revolution.
- #REV27 What do you mean by Revolution? A revolution means to revolt with the aim of securing a great change of government.
- #REV28 When and where did the war of the revolution begin? At Lexington and Concord, villages near Boston in Massachusetts, on the 19th of April, 1775.
- #REV29 How long did the struggle continue? More than seven years.
- #REV30 When did it end? On the 21st of January, 1783 when a treaty was signed at Paris acknowledging the independence of the United States.
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