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The American Legacy

The American Legacy. A Republic of Virtue and The American Trinity. INDEPENDENCE DAY.

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The American Legacy

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  1. The American Legacy A Republic of Virtue and The American Trinity

  2. INDEPENDENCE DAY • Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

  3. By July 4, 1776 there were 13 COLONIES 136 YEARS HAD PAST SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE 1ST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT

  4. Jamestown, Virginia1607 TheMayflower 1620 By 1630 population 4,300 By 1650 population 50,400 By 1670 population 111,900 By 1770 population 2,148,000 17th Century America – Experienced Exponential Growth

  5. 136 YEARS FROM JAMESTOWNTO JULY 4, 1776 • WERE YEARS OF INTELLECTUAL GROWTH • WERE YEARS OF RELIGIOUS AWAKENING • In the New England Colonies, primarily Puritan, religious instruction was of paramount importance and led to the development of advanced educational institutions.

  6. INTELLECTUAL GROWTHColonial Colleges Harvard 1636 Calvinists (Congregational Puritans) Yale 1701 Congregational Pennsylvania 1740 Anglican Princeton 1746 Presbyterian Columbia 1754 Anglican Brown 1764 Baptist Dartmouth 1769 Calvinists (Congregational)

  7. Harvard Veritas (Truth) Yale Lux et veritas (Light and truth) Pennsylvania Leges sine moribus vanae (Laws without morals are useless) Princeton Dei sub numine viget (Under God's power she flourishes) Columbia In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen (In Thy light shall we see the light) Brown In Deo Speramus (In God We Hope) Dartmouth Vox clamantis in deserto (The voice of one crying in the wilderness) INTELLECTUAL GROWTHColonial Christian College Mottos

  8. INTELLECTUAL GROWTHTHE IVY LEAGUE

  9. RELIGIOUS AWAKENINGThe Great Awakening 1730s & 1740s George Whitefield Benjamin Franklin

  10. The American Revolution The American Revolution was a costly war that lasted from 1775 to 1783 and secured American independence from the power of the British crown, which wanted to keep its empire whole. What Caused the war? 

  11. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754–1763

  12. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION • Britain imposed a series TAXES including: • The Sugar Act - 1764 • The Stamp Act - 1765 • The Declaratory Act 1766 • The Townshend Revenue Act 1767 • The Tea Act – 1773 gave the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade and the Boston Tea Party • Taxation without representation

  13. …SUGAR Sugar Act (1764) Taxes put on… …COFFEE …MOLASSES …INDIGO

  14. ...NEWSPAPERS (New York Gazetteer, Feb. 15, 1775) Stamp Act (1765) Taxes put on… …DICE ...LEGAL DOCUMENTS …PLAYING CARDS

  15. Repressive Measures TAXATION W/O REPRESENTATION WAS JUST ONE (#17) OF 27 GRIEVANCES LISTED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ALSO LISTED WERE: • ABUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE POWERS • ABUSE OF MILITARY POWERS • ABUSE OF JUDICIAL POWERS • STIRRING UP DOMESTIC INSURRECTION

  16. Repressive Measures • Coercive Acts (after the Boston Tea Party) • Closed port of Boston • took over the government of Massachusetts • Established military rule • Warrantless Searches • Quartering Act • Writs of Assistance

  17. Repressive Measures • 1772 KING GEORGE VETOED THE FORMATION OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES AS THEY COMPETED AGAINST THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH - RELIGIOUS FREEDOM • 1774 PENNSYLVANIA ABOLISHED SLAVERY BUT KING GEORGE III VETOED THE LAW

  18. Colonial Resistance • Boycotts • Representational organizations - Daughters of the Revolution • Militias - Sons of Liberty • The Boston Tea Party 1773 • Continental Congress – Philadelphia 1774 • Armed resistance – 1775 • Lexington – the shot heard around the world • The Olive Branch Petition 1775 / K. George III - Rejected • The Declaration of Independence • July 4, 1776 • Full-scale War The Constitution of the United States 1788

  19. Boston Tea Party

  20. UMMMMM COFFEEEEE!!!!

  21. July 4, 1776

  22. A MOST UNIQUE DECLARATION According to Dr. Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University, “Never before had a new government been brought into being by a document declaring the very ends and purposes of government to be life, liberty and happiness of those governed.”

  23. Declaration of Independence The First Sentence the Declaration calls upon an authority higher than man: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

  24. GOD LIBERTY E PLURIBUS UNUM “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” Within the Preamble of theDeclaration of Independence We Find 3 American Values

  25. AMERICAN VALUESThe American Trinity (Dennis Praeger) ENSHRINED ON OUR CURRENCY

  26. 3 UNIQUE AMERICAN VALUES • IN GOD WE TRUST • LIBERTY • EPLURIBUS UNUM

  27. IN GOD WE TRUST We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men arecreated equal, that they are endowed by their Creator The Founders had a biblical knowledge of God as Creator: So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
 - Genesis 1:26-28

  28. IN GOD WE TRUST The founders: Believed in GOD; the GOD of the Hebrew bible and were preoccupied with the Bible Believed in forming a God based country with a non denominational government Believed in forming a government based on Judeo-Christian values and not Judeo-Christian theology Believed in the necessity of God for morality, for without God, men’s morals are corruptible, and can easily be changed

  29. IN GOD WE TRUST Of 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, the vast majority were professing Christians and actively affiliated with Christian churches – 28 Episcopalians, 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Reformed, 2 Lutherans, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 religions preference was unknown, and 3 Deists (Franklin, and Jefferson).

  30. IN GOD WE TRUST Deist Benjamin Franklin proposed that each session open with prayer “imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings.” Deist Thomas Jefferson, “The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.” Believed that God judges nations Believed that human life is sacred, we were made in the image of God and “…endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”

  31. IN GOD WE TRUST The Founders: Believed in the sinful nature of man kind*** Sinful nature required a separation of powers Executive, Legislative and Judicial The “Worldview” of the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States was “Judeo-Christian” through and through.

  32. IN GOD WE TRUST IN GOD WE TRUST The phrase appears to have originated in the Star-Spangled Banner, written during the War of 1812. The fourth stanza includes the phrase, "And this be our motto: 'In God is our Trust.'"

  33. IN GOD WE TRUST Congress passed an Act on April 22, 1864….to be placed on coinage and IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.

  34. IN GOD WE TRUST

  35. 3 UNIQUE AMERICAN VALUES • IN GOD WE TRUST • LIBERTY • EPLURIBUS UNUM

  36. LIBERTY

  37. THE FOUNDERS UNDERSTOOD SPIRITUAL LIBERTY • “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (KJV) - John 8:32 • “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” - 2 Corinthians 3:17

  38. THE FOUNDERS SOUGHT LIBERTY FREEDOM IN POLITICS FREEDOM OF RELIGION FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY FREEDOM OF SPEECH FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FREEDOM OF PROPERTY OWNERSHIP FREEDOM TO SEEK ECONOMIC SUCCESS FREEDOM FROM STATE OPRESSION FREEDOM TO BEAR ARMS FREEDOM FROM UNWARRANTED SEARCHES FREEDOM FROM TAXATION W/O REPRESENTATION FREEDOM FROM FEDERAL USURPATION OF STATES RIGHTS (10TH AMENDMENT)

  39. COMMUNIST CUBA • HAVANA – … in December there were a record 796 temporary arrests for political reasons on the Communist-ruled island.The government “continues to criminalize, with an anachronistic Penal Code, the free exercise of all civil, political, economic and cultural rights,” the commission said in a report. - Latin American Herald Tribune, Caracas, ThursdayJune 28,2012

  40. IRAN – SHARIA LAW • Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, 32 Nadarkhani has been jailed since being arrested in 2009 after he went to his son’s school to complain about them starting mandatory Koran classes. • He was then charged with apostasy from Islam. He was found guilty by the Iranian Supreme Court and sentenced to death and has been imprisoned ever since.

  41. NORTH KOREA • North Korea’s political prison camps have expanded substantially over the last decade and hold 200,000 people, according to Amnesty International. • "Hundreds of thousands of people exist with virtually no rights, treated essentially as slaves, in some of the worst circumstances we've documented in the last 50 years," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty's Asia Pacific director.

  42. Shin Dong-hyuk Shin Dong-hyuk is the only known person born in a North Korean prison camp that escaped and survived to tell the tale.

  43. Shin Dong-hyuk • North Korea judges any crimes against the state as blood crimes. So when Shin's uncle committed the capital crime of escaping from the state, his remaining family were imprisoned for life….. At [age] 13, [Shin] when he learned that his mother and brother were planning to escape, he … betrayed them to the authorities. The pair were tortured before his mother was hanged and his brother shot. 

  44. HONOR KILLINGS • "Honor killings" have been reported in countries around the world. • The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan released its annual report estimating that in 2011 at least 943 women and girls were murdered in familial "honor killings," including 93 minors. • According to the report, most of the women were killed by husbands or brothers. "Illicit relations" were cited as a reason for 595 cases, and demanding to marry a partner of their choice was noted in 219 cases.

  45. AMERICA – SHARIA LAW • Noor Almaleki, a 16-year-old girl who had run away from home because her parents were about to send her overseas to enter a forced marriage. • In October 2009, at age 20, she was killed in when her father ran her down with his car. • The jury rendered its verdict against Faleh Almaleki; Guilty of second-degree murder. • Feb. 22 2011

  46. “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof…” Lev. 25:10 (KJV)

  47. 3 UNIQUE AMERICAN VALUES • IN GOD WE TRUST • LIBERTY • E PLURIBUS UNUM

  48. E PLURIBUS UNUM

  49. Independence Day • E PLURIBUS UNUM Latin for "Out of many, one"

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