Only Limited and Carefully Defined Powers Should Be Delegated to Government – All Others Be Retained in the People This goes along with the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people…. Read more »
Posts By: Carol Dietz
Checks and Balances Prevent Abuse of Power
A System of Checks and Balances Should be Adopted to Prevent the Abuse of Power In the early days of our Constitution many people wanted the separation of powers to be absolute, but in his Federalist Papers (numbers 47 to 51) James Madison explained the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and the… Read more »
Forsaken For Us
Thinking this morning as I was talking to my Father God about what His Son hanging on the cross – meant by saying, “Father, why have You forsaken me?!” So many people don’t understand why God the Father would turn on His own Son making Him go through all that we read in the Bible… Read more »
One Fundamental Flaw
Today, when I look at the future generation that will lead America I see one fundamental flaw. They want to take the two most powerful standards, which are really one, that made America great, and change them. They think these two standards are living and allowed to be changed with the “changing times” of each… Read more »
Three Separate Branches of Government
The Government Should Be Separated into Three Branches Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Isaiah 33:22 “For the Lord is our judge (judicial), the Lord is our lawgiver (legislative), the Lord is our king (executive); it is He who will save us.” It is interesting that in ancient times political writers often debated on what… Read more »
3 Wrong Motives and Attitudes Condemned by Jesus
Jesus called out three kinds of wrong attitudes/motives in Luke chapter 18. The first one being the self-righteous Christian who says in his/her heart, “God, I thank You that I am not like those people; that I do some good things that they don’t do.” Then Jesus justifies the sinner who recognizes he’s a sinner… Read more »
Highest Level of Prosperity from Free Market Economy
The Highest Level of Prosperity Occurs When There is a Free Market Economy and a Minimum of Government Regulations This is a question the Founding Fathers had: “Are there natural laws for the marketplace?” They saw that there was a possibility of a political and social structure based on natural law, but what about… Read more »
Security of Our Right to Property
Life and Liberty Are Secure Only so Long As the Right to Property Is Secure Leviticus 25:13 “In this year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property. Psalm 115:16 “The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.” The one unalienable right that… Read more »
Imagining Perfection
Thinking this morning and talking to my Father God, about a different way of living than what we’ve every known, I started to imagine, from what I learn from within His written Word a little of what it might be like. I depend on the indwelling Holy Spirit to guide my imagination. (We have a… Read more »
Securing our Life and Liberty
Life and Liberty Are Secure Only so Long As the Right to Property Is Secure Leviticus 25:13 “In this year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property. Psalm 115:16 “The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.” The one unalienable right that… Read more »