The 5000 Year Leap

I was at the library and a lady suggested that I should read The 5000 Year Leap, by Cleon Skousen. So I did! It was a great review of the principles our Founding Father's used to build this great nation. I recommend it to all people who value the freedoms that come with living in America.

Part of the Forward by Glenn Beck:

"There is no reason why our American way of life should be drowning in the same mistakes of those failed empires of the past, except for perhaps this one—as a culture we’ve stopped teaching and practicing the true principles of prosperity.

There are 28 great ideas that helped change our world, and the funny thing is, the American Founding Fathers hardly invented a single one of them. But they did find them, and brought them all together in a single document that has blessed this great nation and the entire world.

Promise me that you will write down the 28 ideas and teach them to your children, your neighbors, your friends—Now is the time to get out of our comfort zone.

You, me, all of us were born for this day, to stand responsible before God and future generations to keep this torch of freedom lit, and bear it away from ruin.

Remember the story of Joshua and the battle of Jericho. Remember how they marched around the city and all at once blew their horns and the walls went tumbling down? That’s us all over the place. We are the troops. The truth is our trumpet. And the walls are those same old tired ideas forced on us today—ideas that didn’t work at Jamestown, and certainly won’t work now.

The power is ours to blast our horns and shake those rotted scales off our freedoms, shake them to rubble and get our country back."

The Founder’s Basic Principles:

1. The Genius of Natural Law

2. A virtuous and Moral people

3. Virtuous and Moral Leaders

4. The Role of Religion

5. The Role of the Creator

6. All Men Are Created Equal

7. Equal Rights, Not Equal Things

8. Man’s Unalienable Rights

9. The Role of Revealed Law

10. Sovereignty of the People

11. Who Can Alter the Government?

12. Advantages of a Republic

13. Protection Against Human Frailty

14. Property Rights Essential to Liberty

15. Free-market Economics

16. The Separation of Powers

17. Checks and Balances

18. Importance of a Written Constitution

19. Limiting and Defining the Powers of Government

20. Majority Rule, Minority Rights

21. Strong Local Self-government

22. Government by Law, Not by Men

23. Importance of an Educated Electorate

24. Peace Through Strength

25. Avoid Entangling Alliances

26. Protecting the Role of the Family

27. Avoiding the Burden of Debt

28. The Founder’s Sense of Manifest Destiny