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A Call for a New Magna Carta

September 4th, 2012 | by Gary DeMar

The Declaration of Independence was written in the long shadow of Magna Carta, a thirteenth-century document that maintained that even the king was bound by law, not only the law of the commonwealth but God's law. King John reluctantly bound himself to the charter's provisions by attaching his seal


Were the founding fathers egalitarians? What did they mean by “all men are created equal”?

August 8th, 2012 | by Nathaniel Darnell

Did they mean that all men are equal in all matters? For example, did they mean that all men were born into equal social position? Did they mean that all men are born into equal financial situations? Experience would deny those interpretations. The founders themselves recognized from their own experience in many of their writings that different men were born into different situations. […


“God is mean!” says African political leader, and is Amazing Grace still “amazing”?

July 18th, 2012 | by Nathaniel Darnell

In the African country of Ghana, Mr. George Ayisi Boateng, a founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has recently stirred controversy for publicly saying on radio that "God is a very wicked man" to have made Ghanaians Professor John Evans Atta Mills the nation's President. Without getting too embroiled in Ghuanian politics, I think we can all appreciate the frustration of having a man in political power who we believe is doing



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