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When Davey Crockett was a Congressman he learned a lesson we desperately need to relearn in our nation.  He once voted for some $20,000 to be set aside from the national treasury to be given to families in north Washington, whose houses had burned.  It seemed to be the compassionate thing to do.  But later, back on the campaign trail, a well-respected farmer told him he could not again vote for him.  When Crockett asked him why, the man, Horatio Bunce, replied that he had violated the Constitution by voting that money for the destitute families.  Bunce then began to explain that the Constitution allows Congress only the right to vote appropriations for the duties which the Constitution enumerates that the government has the power to do.  It gives no power to give money to those citizens who need help.  Bunce said to Crockett, quote:

“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man…

“If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper.  You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other.  No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.”

(Harper’s Magazine, 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, pen name of Edward S. Ellis)

Davey Crockett learned a vital lesson that day:  If the people didn’t agree to something in the original Constitution—or haven’t amended it since concerning that power—then the Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court has no right to do it—PERIOD!!!  This view of the Constitution is called Original Intent, and it is the only view that will preserve our liberty!

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In 1800, Supreme Court Justice William Paterson, reminded his fellow Justices on the Court of the words of Proverbs 29:2, which state:

“When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”

In Kentucky we are about to choose people to rule over us—and our children.  Very important offices will be decided this election day.  We’ll choose a Governor and, nearly as important, an Attorney General, among others.  We need Godly wisdom to know, and Godly boldness to do, in the voting booth, what is right by God’s standard—regardless of our party, or pressure from family or friends.  We need Godly boldness to vote Biblical moral convictions, regardless of what socialists in the media are trying to influence us to do.

The Bible calls us to vote for candidates who will “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.”  It tells us to:

“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.” (Deuteronomy 1:13)

Samuel Adams, the Father of the American Revolution, summed up why our voting was so very important when he Continue reading →