We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I (Article 1 – Legislative)
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall beapportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.2 The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
4: When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.
5: The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section 3
1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof,3 for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
2: Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.4
3: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
4: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
5: The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
7: Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Section 4
1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.
2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December,5 unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Section 5
1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
3: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Section 6
1: The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.6 They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
2: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Section 7
1: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
2: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.
3: Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 9
1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to theYear one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax ordutymay be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
3: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
4: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census orEnumerationherein before directed to be taken.7
5: No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
6: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Section 10
1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
2: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.
3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Article II (Article 2 – Executive)
Section 1
1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
3: The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner choose the President. But in choosingthe President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice President.8
4: The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
6: In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Dutiesof the said Office,9 the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Section 2
1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section 3
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Article III (Article 3 – Judicial)
Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section 2
1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;10 —between Citizens of different States, —between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
3: The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
Section 3
1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
2: The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Article IV (Article 4 – States’ Relations)
Section 1
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section 2
1: The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
3: No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.11
Section 3
1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Article V (Article 5 – Mode of Amendment)
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Article VI (Article 6 – Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
1: All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
3: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Article VII (Article 7 – Ratification)
The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.
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done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
Amendments to the Constitution
Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.12
(Articles I through X are known as the Bill of Rights) ratified
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Article the first. …. After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.
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Article the second. …. No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. see Amendment XXVII
Article [I] (Amendment 1 – Freedom of expression and religion)13
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article [II] (Amendment 2 – Bearing Arms)
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Article [III] (Amendment 3 – Quartering Soldiers)
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Article [IV] (Amendment 4 – Search and Seizure)
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Article [V] (Amendment 5 – Rights of Persons)
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Article [VI] (Amendment 6 – Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions)
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Article [VII] (Amendment 7 – Civil Trials)
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Article [VIII] (Amendment 8 – Further Guarantees in Criminal Cases)
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Article [IX] (Amendment 9 – Unenumerated Rights)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Article [X] (Amendment 10 – Reserved Powers)
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.
Attest,
John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Sam. A. Otis Secretary of the Senate.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg Speaker of the House of Representatives.
John Adams, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
(end of the Bill of Rights)
[Article XI] (Amendment 11 – Suits Against States)
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. ratified #11affects 10
[Article XII] (Amendment 12 – Election of President)
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.14 —The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. ratified #12affects 8
Article XIII (Amendment 13 – Slavery and Involuntary Servitude)
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. affects 11
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #13
Article XIV (Amendment 14 – Rights Guaranteed: Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection)
1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,15 and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. affects 2
3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. ratified #14
Article XV (Amendment 15 – Rights of Citizens to Vote)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #15
Article XVI (Amendment 16 – Income Tax)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. ratified #16affects 2
[Article XVII] (Amendment 17 – Popular Election of Senators)
1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. affects 3
2: When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. affects 4
3: This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. ratified #17
Article [XVIII](Amendment 18 – Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors)16
1: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
2: The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. ratified #18
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. affects 15
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #19
Article [XX] (Amendment 20 – Terms of President, Vice President, Members of Congress: Presidential Vacancy)
1: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. affects 5
2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. affects 5
3: If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. affects 9affects 14
4: The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. affects 9
5: Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission. ratified #20
Article [XXI] (Amendment 21 – Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment)
1: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. affects 16
2: The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. ratified #21
1: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
2: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress. ratified #22
Amendment XXIII (Amendment 23 – Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia)
1: The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #23
Amendment XXIV (Amendment 24 – Abolition of the Poll Tax Qualification in Federal Elections)
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #24
1: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3: Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. ratified #25
Amendment XXVI (Amendment 26 – Reduction of Voting Age Qualification)
1: The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age. affects 15
2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ratified #26
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. ratified #27
Civil government, governors, civil servants are “sent by him” but to do what? – “for the punishment of evildoers” and what else?:
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:13-14
God’s people are to pray according to His will which is His Word – “for the punishment of evildoers” in the country they are in. Also, civil authorities are ordained of God to “praise them that do well.”
SO, WHEN CIVIL GOVERNMENT “AUTHORITIES” BEGIN TO PUNISH “THEM THAT DO WELL,” THEY ARE ACTING UNLAWFULLY AND MUST BE PROSECUTED AS TRAITORS.
WARNING TO COPS, SHERIFFS, JUDGES, CLERKS OF COURT, AND ATTORNEYS WHO CARRY OUT UNLAWFUL ORDERS (such as closing business, mask “mandates”, etc.)…. There’s no justifying their cowardly, traitorous actions, period. They are violating the RIGHTS of the people by obeying unlawful orders after they swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and to protect WE THE PEOPLE from government tyrants who would dare make unlawful orders which contradict Constitutional law. Read the 1st Amendment. Those who do such are traitors. They can and should be held liable, by name, in their individual and official capacities in Federal court. Under the color of law they are breaking their oath of office as they perpetrate, carry out tyranny and should be held accountable. Then this stuff will stop. The cowardly German people are the exact people to blame for complying with Hitler’s playbook, from the beginning when he began with more minor dictates and then escalated to the murder of 6 millions Jews (masks, lockdowns, vaccinations, etc).
Evangelism Adventures: Stories, Reports, and Testimonies of God’s Amazing Love [podcast]
SO, we prayed for God to use us today right? …. He’s hearing our prayer.
So, in the gym this morning, a lady near me was struggling to get a large plate on each side of the barbell. So, I began to help her and she said “No Ingles” which means she does not speak English. So, I affirmed that she speaks Spanish and I began to speak God’s Word to her in her language. Her face lit up and she thanked me. God is good!
Jesus says “The seed is the word of God” and His people are planting it today in the hearts of others in order for God to bring them to Himself. God be praised in Jesus Christ our LORD and Savior today and forever!
How were we, how are others “born again”? – “the the word of God.”
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” 1 Peter 1:23
Sharing the Gospel in Spanish! YOU can do it! Go here.
The body of Christ in the earth is TEAM JESUS!
The body of Christ is “striving together for the faith of the gospel”, … “WE are labourers together with God.” (Philippians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 3:9)
Let’s lift this up now….. Holy Father, You are the LORD of the harvest. In the name of Jesus Christ, we here and now ask You to send forth more laborers and supporters into the fields which You told us are ready to be harvested. In Jesus’ name. Thank You LORD Jesus !
Ever notice how some church goers live their life trying to get others to go to their church? Question: As you read God’s Word, do you see Jesus, His apostles, or the earliest followers of Jesus inviting people to their church? Or, do you see them bringing the love, the truth, the Gospel to the people?
“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:35-38
Oh and this…
“Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.” Acts 8:4
Those in charge in the so-called “church” buildings are perpetuating their own existence and not taking the Gospel of Jesus to the people. Unlike Jesus and all of His true disciples throughout New Testament history, they have no concern for lost souls.
Tens of thousands of saints and sinners are being reached each month with the Word of God via a multiplicity of diverse venues.
Books like the Born Again book and Moments with Our Master, etc. continue to go forth to the incarcerated. Today a copy of the Born Again book was sent to a man who confessed to the murder of 16 people (Sean Lannon). GOD is able saints!
Giving God praise for those who support HIS work. Your support is vital. Jesus Christ is KING! and He’s coming soon! “WE are labourers TOGETHER with God.” (1 Cor 3:9) | Because You Care
JESUS HASN’T AND WILL NOT RESCIND HIS GREAT COMMISSION MANDATE. ARE YOU PARTICIPATING? He commanded us to “GO ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15)
Jesus is Bringing Incarcerated, Captive Souls to Himself: YOUR GIFTS ARE REACHING BEHIND THE COLD HARD WALLS OF PRISON CELLS – INTO THE SEARCHING, HUNGERING SOULS OF A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE OF MEN AND WOMEN: Inasmuch as there is financial supply, ministry books continue to flood jails across our nation – touching the hearts of the incarcerated for Christ! These books will be read by many, Captive audience.
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” Psalms 23:5
YOUR PRAYER: Holy Father, I ask You now to use me for Your glory. Set my life apart to Yourself. Bless this life to be truly crucified with Christ and raised for Your eternal glory my LORD Jesus. I love You Jesus. I love You dear Father. In Jesus’ name.
If we are low spiritually, it could only be for 1 reason – we didn’t stay filled. Get filled! Stay filled! Overflow!
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6
“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” Psalms 68:11
Examples and Blessings of Sharing God’s Love
This recent letter below is from Brother John Becknell in Kentucky. John and I met when I called his store after seeing a Fox news article featuring their no-mask policy store front sign. It was a divine connection for certain and we’ve been blessed to continually supply brother John and the believers around him with Bibles and the Moments for Our Master 365 devotional books. Also, John referred us to a women’s recovery home there in his area which we’ve been blessed to also supply with Bibles and copies of the devotional books.
“Brother Todd, To say the least … it’s been busy here. Alvin’s was blessed to give away 510 free Christmas dinners to anyone in the community who came into the store the Sunday after Christmas Day. We had made all the preparations for the dinners to be served on Christmas Day… but we got about 7 or 8 inches of surprise snow and black ice, temperatures dropped into the teens; ice everywhere, broken water lines on Christmas Eve. The ice was really bad; cars off the road all around us. Several stranded people came into the store and stayed until the roads were passable Friday night. We gave away coffee and snacks to those who came in out of the storm. We had to postpone the dinner until Sunday… it was a nightmare, but God saw us through and Sunday we had a glorious time! We were able to give away the Bibles you sent. We made a display and placed them on a table directly in front of our hot bar. We talked with many people and gave the ones that wanted one a Bible… There’s nothing better than being able to feed food to the body and nourishment to the Spirit! As you know Christmas is a hard time for many families and we got to minister Hope and pray with several people… Thanks for all the prayers and support especially during Christmas with the Bibles and devotionals… ‘People need Hope, they need healing, they need to reach out for the Master, they need the Word.’ Matt 9:22. God Bless you and your ministry for sending the Word; it will bring much light in this dark place… John (and yes, we could use a few Bibles and Devotionals).” John Becknell
“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.” John 4:35-38
Below are recent letters from sister Dana, a dear disciple we have had fellowship with for years and whom the ministry outreach has been blessed to supply – due to the love offerings of Christ’s saints.
Here’s How Our LORD Instructed us to Pray
“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:35-38
Feel free to lift a lady named Cindy in prayer….. the following was given to her…
@Cindy – We have all sinned against God and shall all stand before our Maker, the Judge of our eternal souls, to give full account. “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” (Psalms 14:1) Lying, stealing, coveting, using His holy name in vain, lusting, fornication, etc. are sins we’ve all committed and are 100% guilty and will pay for our own sins in hell for eternity. The Almighty owes you nothing. You need Him. He does not need you.
The Purpose, Limits, and Blessing of Civil Government
WHO ELSE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS DAY?
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” Isaiah 9:6-7
There will be no perfect gov’t till JESUS returns – the government will then be assumed by Heaven’s King, It will then be upon HIS shoulders right? Is. 9:6-7 It will only then be perfect!!!!
Jesus is coming.
Punishing Evil Doers is Essential in this Fallen World, Age
FATHER, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask You now, afresh, to expose and to plunder the wickedness, the evil forces seeking to take this nation down (Matthew 10:26-28). Call and grant true repentance to those who call themselves by Your holy name (2 Chronicles 7:14-15). Heal this land that Your holy name is glorified and Your people live “quiet and peaceable” lives (1 Timothy 2:1-8). In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Doing justice requires us to “CONDEMN THE WICKED”
Deuteronomy 25:1
“If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.”
It is an “abomination to the LORD” to justify the wicked or to condemn the just:
“He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.” Proverbs 17:15
NO matter what, we know God is a just God – a God of justice. So, we pray….
Holy Father, may justice be done in this nation. Expose the roots of wickedness that pose as righteous. May the Haman’s be hung in the gallows they created to murder others. Root out the wicked doers and cause Your people to humble themselves in true repentance and obedience to do Your great commission to teach Your Word to all. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
If our leaders and country and the peace thereof doesn’t matter …
WHY did God ordain them? (Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-14)
WHY did God instruct us to specifically pray for such? (1 Timothy 2:1-6; Jeremiah 29:7)
Glad Trump escaped the bullet, death, attempted assassination. Biblical Fact: God hears, answers, and uses the prayers of His people to do His bidding and anoints and sends men to destroy evil, God-less regimes. The LORD will do as He sees fit – NOT as you see fit, sinner. in case it weren’t obvious enough – He doesn’t need our puny, no-count permission. Read of Jehu’s anointing to do just that in 2 Kings 9 when he was anointed by God to destroy the kingdom, regime of Ahab and Jezebel. Also, Nebuchadnezzar, HEATHEN king of Babylon, was anointed by God to destroy many nations and was called by the LORD His “hammer.” (Jeremiah 50:23) Cyrus, a PAGAN, the ruler of Persia, was called by God His “battle axe.” (Jeremiah 51:20) The Bible also says this of Cyrus: “Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;” (Isaiah 45:1) These biblical facts make it clear that God, who owns all, uses evil men at times to do His bidding, His work. The kings, civil rulers were not children of God and the LORD used them. If HIS divine plan is to use Trump, anyway HE pleases. including to destroy an evil regime, a syndicate and system, that’s up to HIM.
Who do YOU think you are, piece of dust?
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.” 1 Samuel 2:3
“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.” Proverbs 8:13
Beware though: Some confuse God protecting and using Trump with him being a true Christian. Unless we hear the name of Jesus Christ, a salvation testimony, coming out of a man’s mouth, we cannot believe they are a true born again Christian (Acts 4:12; Luke 12:8-9). Even the devils, demons believe in God and tremble but we know they are not part of God’s kingdom (James 2:19).
Jesus says: “Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.” (Luke 12:8-9)
Civil government is the ordination of God where He appoints men to punish “evildoers” (Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-14). He is all-wise and all-loving! We His people are commanded to pray for “all in authority” while we fulfill Christ’s Great Commission command to make Him known, that is, the “one mediator between God and men”, Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:1-6) The civil government servants are “God’s ministers” that “are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers” so that the family unit and body of Christ are kept safe in this fallen world where wicked men abound (Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-14).
This is biblically stated and therefore non-negotiable.
Let that sink in.
GOD COMMANDED US TO PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS AND NATION
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we petition You now to let the light shine on the darkness of this government and for justice to come upon the wicked. In Jesus’ name.
Praying for our leaders and nation doesn’t mean it’s our main focus and yet if God’s people don’t pray, the nation falls (2 Chronicles 7:14; Jeremiah 29:7; 1 Timothy 2:1-8).
Personally, this disciple has to watch, to monitor and examine myself daily. From birth was taught patriotism and was a Marine 7 years. VERY thankful for America. So it’s in my blood but I must remain abiding in Christ and uphold Jesus as “first love” and have no idols! (Revelation 2:4-5) God will damn all idolaters (Exodus 20:3-4; 34:14; Ephesians 5:5-9; Revelation 21:8, etc.).
Those who care and fight for our nation and yet aren’t obeying Christ by participating in the LORD’s Great Commission, are in need of returning to Jesus as “first love” – first priority (Revelation 2:4-5).
God commands us to pray and give thanks for all in authority (1 Timothy 2:1-3).
GOD gave us those freedoms so we can quietly and peaceably – without chaos – make known Christ the “one mediator between God and men.” (1 Timothy 2:1-8)
Some still wish to vaunt their ignorance, self-righteously pretending that civil government isn’t of God or doesn’t invoke their personal participation, namely in the divine command for us to pray for “all in authority.” (1 Timothy 2:1-3) And there’s divine incentive given us in such praying – that we might lead “quiet and peaceable” lives (1 Timothy 2:1-3).
“And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.” Jeremiah 29:7
Not caring for your nation is like not caring to patch the hole in the sinking boat you’re in. Foolishness. This is how unappreciative some are – they act too spiritual to involve themselves enough to obey God and pray for those in authority. Then they self-righteously blame those who are concerned and praying as being idolaters. Silly. Novice. God commanded you to be interested enough in your nation and leaders and incentivized enough to pray to Him for your nation, for all in civil authority in that nation – “that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” and “for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.”
Yet in that “quiet and peaceable life” God desires our society to experience, the body of Christ is to make known the “one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” – this is all in the same passage – amazing!!!! (1 Timothy 2:1-6) …. oh and men are to pray in our nation, everywhere! (v8) BAM No matter what, the Great Commission must be the top priority of God’s people – feeding His sheep and evangelism (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-20; Luke 24:47).
Wow. Wow. Wow. More on this glorious 1 Timothy 2 passage in a moment.
Speaking of how God uses wicked men, Sharon Cornella Scutti writes:
“Jesus, when He commanded, meant GO into all the world (systems) — Matthew 5:16. . ‘Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.’ (Matthew 5:16)”
From Bible.org
“First, civil government is secular in nature while Christianity is spiritual. Christians are aliens and strangers, just passing through this world (see 1 Peter 1:1). Their citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20). Second, the state can look upon Christianity as competitive, even hostile to its authority. The Christian’s highest authority is God. In Rome, Caesar was “god.” Because of this, Romans considered Christians as atheists. Christianity was eventually seen as treasonous. Third, at times Christians were required to “obey God, rather than men” (see Acts 5:29), which openly confirmed the government’s suspicions. Fourth, government officials, either unconsciously or willingly, used their authority to actively oppose the church and to persecute Christians.”
Some Christians draw a hard line, claiming that because Jesus and His apostles weren’t witnessed being involved in civil government (although Paul did appeal using his Roman citizenship), that Christians today should have nothing to do with it. Is this true? Is that what “come out from among them” really means? (2 Corinthians 6:17) The context of this “come out” command is speaking of being separate in the way we, as God’s people, live in this fleeting world, and not of necessarily being completely disconnected from the people and institutions of this world. Paul says we would have to leave this world to get away from the sinners of this world – “then must ye needs go out of the world.” (1 Corinthians 5:10) Yet, in this fleeting world, God desires civility and therefore ordained civil government to keep things civil – “for the punishment of evildoers.” (1 Peter 2:14)
Think about what America would be like if there were no consequences for hurting others. There were no crime systems or jails. Look at the rampant looting, murder, assaults happening now on our streets where civil authorities in those areas are refusing to do their God-ordained duty of protecting the people, the community. And, when someone is jailed for a crime, they are immediately released to go commit the same crime and worse. Without civil authorities, there’s no deterrent from evil men doing every evil under the sun.
Notice in this important passage below how the LORD informs us that it’s His will that we pray for those in civil authority in order that we, His people living in this fallen world temporarily, can “lead a quiet and peaceable life” (civility) as they carry out His great commission, making known Jesus, the one and only “mediator between God and men.”
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” 1 Timothy 2:1-6
This is biblical authority and command – to at least pray for those in authority, to submit to them, to recognize them as being from God Himself and ordained by Him for His all-wise purposes. Pray and thank God for civil authority – These are divine commands. In my opinion, it’s not a sin to be involved with the civil process such as in voting, etc. We are not under the same government structure as were Jesus and His apostles. They had no say-so. It’s an individual liberty afforded by God and people shouldn’t be judged for doing so or not doing so because it’s a non-essential (Romans 14). To say it’s a sin as do some, seems to be coming from a novice perspective. Being involved in the civil process by prayer and otherwise, should not take away from the preaching of the Word, the Great Commission Jesus gave us (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-20, etc.). One writer notes:
“God ordained (allowed) civil government for the old creation as a necessary evil/stop-gap measure to maintain order.”
Civil government, governors, civil servants are “sent by him” but to do what? – “for the punishment of evildoers” and what else?:
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:13-14
God’s people are to pray according to His will which is His Word – “for the punishment of evildoers” in the country they are in. Also, civil authorities are ordained of God to “praise them that do well.”
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:13-14
Civil government ceases to be sanctioned by God when it begins punishing instead of praising “them that do well.” Read that passage above again, real slow, carefully.
Let’s sum up what God ordained civil government to do:
They are “sent by him for the …
“punishment of evildoers, and”
“ for the praise of them that do well. “
DEFUND THE POLICE IS AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD
We see here how those who “do well” “praise” the God-given authorities, civil government agents, the police.
Notice this: Let’s read the passage again….
“for the praise of them that do well.”
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him (God) FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF EVILDOERS, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:13-14
So, when civil government “authorities” begin to punish “them that do well,” they are acting unlawfully and must be prosecuted as traitors.
WHEN a husband or wife orders their spouse to do something sinful, the child of God will refuse to do it. With the same principle in mind, namely civil disobedience, WHEN the government tells the child of God to do something that is not biblical, the disciple of Jesus will not obey which we see with the apostles (Acts 4:23-31). Get a clue. Some people have been deceived, intentionally misled by the 501(C)(3) Savior-rejecting, state-controlled frauds, to believe that any and everything the civil government orders them to do they must obey. Silly. Gullible. Stupid. Ungodly, Un-biblical. Repent. Isn’t that what the Germans did? – they obey hitler’s civil government orders which began softly, subtly, which led to 6 million murdered Jews?
AND, these unlawful orders such as a mask “mandate” is a laughable fraud that cowards have obeyed.
“Do not comply. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did not comply. Along with the apostles when they were told to quit preaching the Gospel.” Karen Cochran
WARNING TO COPS, SHERIFFS, JUDGES, CLERKS OF COURT, AND ATTORNEYS WHO CARRY OUT UNLAWFUL ORDERS (such as closing business, mask “mandates”, etc.)…. There’s no justifying their cowardly, traitorous actions, period. They are violating the RIGHTS of the people by obeying unlawful orders after they swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and to protect WE THE PEOPLE from government tyrants who would dare make unlawful orders which contradict Constitutional law. Read the 1st Amendment. Those who do such are traitors. They can and should be held liable, by name, in their individual and official capacities in Federal court. Under the color of law they are breaking their oath of office as they perpetrate, carry out tyranny and should be held accountable. Then this stuff will stop. The cowardly German people are the exact people to blame for complying with Hitler’s playbook, from the beginning when he began with more minor dictates and then escalated to the murder of 6 millions Jews (masks, lock downs, vaccinations, etc).
Christians are to Participate
It not a sin to care for, pray for, and vote in your present earthly country (2 Chronicles 7:14; Jeremiah 29:7; Romans 13; 1 Timothy 2:1-6; 1 Peter 2:13-14, etc.). It is a sin to put your earthly country before, above your heavenly citizenship (Philippians 3:18-21; Hebrews 11:10; 13:14; Revelation 21, etc.). When we truly trust the LORD, He can change the governments of men because “the most high ruleth in the kingdoms of men.” (Daniel 4:32) Let us follow Jesus and petition God in His holy name for “ALL in authority” in this nation as we are about our “father’s business,” making known the “one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” who desires “all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” (Luke 2:49; 1 Timothy 2:1-6).
Seems to me that Satan would have people ignore the affairs of civil government and let Satan’s agents and agenda to steal, kill, and destroy prevail. Satan clearly wants God’s people to NOT be involved in the government so he can destroy them through the government (see all of history).
OR
He will attempt to get God’s people overly involved in government and cease putting Jesus first and obeying His Great Commission command.
1 Timothy 2:1-3, Jeremiah 29:7, Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-17, etc., speak directly of civil government which is 1 of the 3 institutions ordained by God for mankind in this present fallen world.
the Family
the Church (body of Christ)
the government (civil)
When Christ’s future reign is established in the restored earth, all enmity will be removed and predator and prey shall dwell at peace together.
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6
“The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.” Isaiah 65:25
We are passing through, in this world temporarily and yet, God wants us protected here.
While we are commanded to pray for “all in authority,” we must remember that this is not our home. Read Revelation 21.
“FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF EVILDOERS”
“…governors (civil authorities), as unto them that are sent by him FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF EVILDOERS, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:14
Any question as to why God ordained civil authorities in this fallen world, this fallen age?
God Ordained Civil Authorities…. but for what? Please read the verse below and answer in the comments.
“Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:14
Your Answer here: _________________________________________________
We live in a fallen world. God instituted 1. the Family, 2. the Church, and 3. Civil Government. Civil government protects the people, including the family and the body of Christ.
What has GOD ordained civil authorities to do” – “for the punishment of evildoers” …. Let’s review again this central passage on the biblical doctrine of civil authorities and their purpose from God:
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” 1 Peter 2:13-14
When the cops are dealing with you, comply. Simple. Many are not with us today because they didn’t. Our policemen are people too and their lives matter and they have the right to defend themselves. Comply or you may die, especially if you are reaching for a weapon. If you are mistreated by civil authorities, in our nation we have Cons which makes provision for redress of grievances, or restitution for governmental wrong doing.
“Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to OBEY MAGISTRATES, to be ready to every good work,” Titus 3:1
Keep in mind that there is a proper use of force, of military, of civil authorities (Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-14). That proper function of civil authority is to punish evil doers, and to protect the citizens from foreign and domestic enemies, “evildoers”.
Mask Mandates – Masking, Muzzling the People
Romans 13 does not instruct believers to comply with tyranny. Let’s rightly divide. Excuse me, if that were the case, WHY didn’t the apostles obey the civil rulers of their day and stop preaching Jesus? (Acts 4:23-31) Not only did they not obey, they disobeyed those civil rulers and their orders as did Daniel and the 3 Hebrew children, right? Right. The apostles not only disobeyed, they cried out to God for a fresh infilling of the Holy Ghost and more boldness to do exactly what those civil rulers made illegal. Selah.
So, are you a temple of the civil government or a temple of the Holy Spirit? (1 Corinthians 3:16) Many who claim to be Christ’s seem to prove they aren’t His at all. Think: GOD made us with no muzzle and yet many professing Christians muzzle their mouths and noses, their very breathing, breath. Think. Selah. You have obeyed civil government against the creation of God. You have willingly enlisted as a slave to sinful man’s Christ-defying, unlawful orders which are telling you to do things that are plainly against the LORD.
No mask. No muzzle. No vax. No compromise. No fear!
YOU are under NO obligation to comply with any of these “mandates” which are unlawful and a joke AND you should be hoping to get ticketed or arrested. If they violate your non-negotiable RIGHTS, a federal lawsuit will name each traitor and the federal government will have to pay out restitution damages for deprivation of rights (First Amendment, 18 USC 1983 and 242, etc.).
A Constitutional RIGHT cannot be taken away unless you simply give in and give it up like a coward. RIGHTS are not privileges. Privileges can be taken away but RIGHTS cannot be.
Under a good civil ruler, the military is in better hands than than when regimes perpetuate lawlessness at home and endless wars abroad for money and other evil NWO/luciferian dealings. See why we should obey God and pray?
It’s a blessing when elected leaders have a general fear and reverence for God. No, I didn’t say they had to be a born again Christian. Yet, we should be thankful when, if we have leaders who have a great respect for God, like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, even neither of them knew Jesus.
EVERY democrat is a wicked sinner. They hate anyone who represents law and order because they love voting to MURDER innocent babies and call it choice. Repent now sinner. The blood of these precious babies is on your evil, wicked hands before a holy God who is the Judge of your eternal soul. Hell awaits.
JUDGING CIVIL AUTHORITIES
Believers are not called to judge civil authorities as they are to judge leaders and other believers in the church. In the 1 Corinthians 5 passage below, the word “without” means outside of the church, outside the realm, the domain, the jurisdiction of the body of Christ:
“For what have I to do to judge them also that are WITHOUT? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are WITHOUT God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.” 1 Corinthians 5:12-13
With the exception of Jesus calling Herod a fox, we have very little in the way of rebukes toward civil authorities.
The way Jesus and his apostle’s dealt with false prophets was different than the way they spoke of civil authorities, Christ and His apostles openly exposed and named false teachers within the church world. Think of how Jesus lambasted the pharisees of his day in Matthew 23. How about when Paul wrote the 4 chapters of 2 Timothy and named 8 deceivers, 2 per chapter, etc.
Jesus says render unto Caesar (civil authorities) that which is Caesar’s and yet it also says that if you support a false prophet then you the be judged with them and to expose false prophets. What’s the difference? The difference is that we are not to treat civil authorities as we do bad actors posing as Christian leaders who are misleading Christ’s flock as they use His holy name in vain.
Some misuse, take out of context Romans 13. Be careful and may God bless us with His discernment. No, God’s people are not to obey any and every rule of “authority”. The saint of Christ is the temple of the Holy Spirit and not the state (1 Corinthians 3:16). We are to render to Caesar (the state) only that which belongs to Caesar and no more. “We ought to obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29)
It’s horrid and concerning that abortion has not ended. Keep praying saints. Ask God to grant us law and order which is His stated purpose for civil authorities (1 Timothy 2:1-3; Romans 13; 1 Peter 2:13-17). That law and order, as the Constitution makes clear, should punish all murder, including that within the womb (5th Amendment, 14th Amendment, etc.).
COMMON OBJECTIONS
MESSAGE RECEIVED:
“It is God’s job to judge, it is ours to love each other!”
REPLY:
Yes God is the JUDGE …. and what did the Judge tell US to do? Let’s look….
Deu 19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Deu 19:17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; Deu 19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Deu 19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. Deu 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
Who said obeying God means a person has to hate anyone? Loving God is the highest priority, not pandering sinful sentiment. We must walk in His love and that is coupled with obedience to Him. Executing the will, the Word of God doesn’t mean we hate anyone. Hatred in ones heart is a personal issue one must work out before the LORD. Yet to disobey the LORD by not doing what He said, is sin.
We must study the whole counsel of God’s Word and rightly divide the Word of truth (2 Tim 2:15). GOD ordained civil authorities to judge evil doers. Read Rom 13 and 1 Peter 2:13-17
What has GOD ordained civil authorities to do” – “for the punishment of evildoers” ….
1Pe 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 1Pe 2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
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1895 8th Grade Final Exam: See How Many You Can Answer
Here’s the CLEAR evidence that the “education” system which took over from home schooling parents over 100 years ago, was designed to and successfully accomplished the dumbing down of Americans.
DO we realize just how dumbed down we are? Take a look. See if you can answer even half these questions, or any of them.
Clear proof that “education” is long gone. Nearly all America has today is demonic indoctrination.
While pretending to educate people higher, satan’s communists are dumbing them down… because dumb people are easy to manipulate and control. Proof? I dare any Master degreed or PhD to answer half of these 8th Grade Primer questions from 1895.
Are we genuinely becoming more educated or are we becoming more indoctrinated? Has education in America gotten better or worse over the last century? Find out here.
Even 2 years ago, how many of us would have guessed that debating the definition of what a woman is would ever have been a question in America?
Can we legitimately claim to have a “higher education” in our day?
You have a “degree” an “education”?
How well do you know, what is your personal working knowledge of the most important Book in world HIS-story? How can anyone rightly claim a “higher education” when they don’t even know the contents of the Book of the MOST HIGH? They can’t. It’s a farce. “Higher education” … as in PhD = Piled higher and Deeper…… as in crap.
Anyone who doesn’t thoroughly know and have a working understanding and knowledge of the most important Book in HIS-story – the Bible – does not have a “higher education.” In light of this, we can conclude that parents who push the “get an education” foolishness instead of educating their children from birth with the Word, show exactly who they are and the fruit is pure evil (Matt hew Matthew 7:16, 20; 12:33, etc.).
“Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.” Jeremiah 10:2
Think about the lost, dark spiritual state of any parent who would push their own seed, their child, into the demonic culture of colleges and universities today – where the existence of God is questioned and condemned and where fornication and every evil known to mankind is the order of the day.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. ” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
From a Christian worldview, education was never intended to be one and done or confined to obtaining a certain degree by completing courses and tests – many of which are multiple choice. No rather, the view of education from the beginning was designed to simply launch one into a lifetime of personal study. Understanding, having a working knowledge of God, is foundational to anyone’s disposition and functioning. Is it not true that “The more we learn, the more we realize we simply don’t yet know”?
“Education” today has become a stepping stone to serving the god of self – to greedily get a “degree” (to BUY it $ from an antichrist institution) in order to gain fleeting money instead of looking at learning as a way to equip them for the mission of serving God and others.
“A wise man will hear, and will INCREASE learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” Proverbs 1:5
Have be become more intelligent or more ignorant? Has the education of America’s people gotten better or devolved?
Man if this doesn’t plainly illustrate how we’ve been played for fools, nothing will.
When you read the test questions below for 8th graders from over 100 years ago, you will most likely come to the conclusion that master and doctorate level “degreed” people today couldn’t begin to answers these questions.
To illustrate how America has been indoctrinated into stupidity, let’s take a look at a….
1895 8th Grade Final Exam: I Couldn’t Pass It. Could You?
What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895…
Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. 7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare? 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals? 5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch? 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States. 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u’. 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e’. Name two exceptions under each rule. 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4. Describe the mountains of N.A. 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
Some have called the “education” industry in America “The greatest rip off in American history.” Why? Let’s talk about it….
DID YOU KNOW that Charlie Kirk (TurningPointUSA), a 30 year old who can debate and destroy nearly anyone with facts, with truth, doesn’t have a college degree and doesn’t want one? Name just one “professor” who could stand toe to toe with Charlie Kirk. Crickets, right? Yes. This is but one example of the foolishness, the waste of life and money people are being led to expend upon the indoctrination system falsely called “education.” THINK: the text book for college course can be bought and read by anyone. The point is, who needs to pay big money for some smug antichrist “professor” to lead them through a book that is freely available to anyone? Better books costs much less. The King James Bible is the ultimate, the pinnacle literary source. What’s stopping you from studying, reading, learning for yourself?
How many college “educated” people, of any age, do you know who could stand toe to toe and discuss Bible and world history, politics, government with Charlies Kirk? Probably none.
How many times have you read through the Bible?
How many books have your college indoctrinated friends written?
Getting a college degree has become of greed-driven enterprise on both ends – with those selling this scam and with those who wanted a college degree to make more money (many times which did not result in such and yet left them in debt for many years).
Public education was from the beginning a ploy to make Americans ignorant, to hide and change the truth, and thereby overtake a dumb society. Ignorant people are the only ones who can be controlled, used, abused, murdered, enslaved. This form of government is called communism and it enters a nation through the soft sell gateway called socialism.
People are so gullible that they never stop to realize that the so-called indoctrinated “professors” and “teachers” don’t possess any real knowledge or wisdom but rather are teaching only what they are reading from the communist, antichrist text books. SMH
By limiting being more educated to our antichrist government’s public education system, we’ve become fools (Romans 1:22). Before the explosion of the indoctrination system in America, people read voraciously for themselves. Most importantly a large percentage of Americans read God’s Word daily – the foundation for all wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:3-10; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:15-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21, etc.).
“I have more understanding than all my teachers (educators): for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients (professors), because I keep thy precepts.”Psalms 119:99-100
The psalmist here says that he has more understanding than those in position of leadership in this day because he loved and studied the words of the Almighty!
“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” Proverbs 30:12
Learning things, learning information doesn’t mean one is educated. Just WHAT information are we learning? Is it the truth or a twisted convolution of half-truths and lies? What’s being left out? Think agenda. Behind today’s “education” system is a luciferian communist agenda. Besides, what’s the use of learning if one is not learning the truth and is not in the truth? When speaking prophetically of the self-serving generation in which we now live, Paul spoke of our day where we see so many pseudo educated people.
“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:7
Those who are blinded by their own unbelief and pride cannot “come to the knowledge of the truth” and therefore cannot be made free (John 8:31-32, 36). Meditate on this one.
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You have a “degree” an “education”? How well do you know, what is your personal working knowledge of the most important Book in world HIS-story? How can anyone rightly claim a “higher education” when they don’t even know the contents of the Book of the MOST HIGH? They can’t. It’s a farce. “Higher education” … as in PhD = Piled higher and Deeper…… as in crap. From a Christian worldview, education was never intended to be one and done or confined to obtaining a certain degree by completing courses and tests – many of which are multiple choice. No rather, […]
Domination Through Indoctrination: Spiritual Deception. Discerning False Prophets [video]
“Multitudes are Scripturally illiterate and unable to discern doctrinal error and compromise, much less counterfeit signs and wonders, after the working of Satan ! These are being groomed by Satan to be ensnared by the deceptions of the Antichrist.” Kristin Solo Spiritual Warfare | Overcoming Sin and Satan! Sign up for free email devotional HERE… The Moments with My Master email devotional is sent out for the edification of the body of Christ. Sound Doctrine for a Glorious Church [podcast] https://safeguardyoursoul.com//prophetic-frauds-galore/ https://safeguardyoursoul.com//why-this-asbury-ordeal-is-a-blessing/
