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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with the

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Moment of Truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, I want to challenge you to think through the issue of what kind of law enabled the American

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dream to come true in the 5,000-year leap. Yes, we've been examining the 5,000-year leap,

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as it's called. That is, how has humanity made such tremendous progress in technology

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and in culture and in politics, too, and in government over the last 250 years in comparison

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to the last 5,000 years? And we've seen how America has inspired the earth,

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nations all over the globe with its tremendous progress in so many areas. We've reviewed some

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of those areas. We've examined four different kinds of revolutions that have occurred because of the

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great advances in America because of the liberty provided Americans by the American Constitution.

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And one of those reasons is that there has been what is called people's law in comparison to

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ruler's law or in comparison to anarchy. Now, we looked at last week, so I'm picking up from where

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we left off last week. Last week, we examined the spectrum, the continuum of power that is really at

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work. It's not the idea of communism versus Nazism. It's not the contrast between left and right that is

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at the heart of power. It is whether it is ruler's law. And we looked at Stalin, for example, who is a

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epitome of that which is on the left. And we looked at Hitler, who is the epitome of a ruler who is on the

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right. And we saw how they are really just cardboard cutouts of the same thing. That is ruler's law or a

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dictator or a single ruler indeed demands obedience, exercises power. And then right in the on the other

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extreme is anarchy, not right or left, not communist versus Nazism, but rather anarchy stands at the other

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end of the spectrum. Ruler's law, complete dictatorship is on one side and complete anarchy or

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chaos or disorder is on the other side. And humanity despises both of those extremes. Right in the

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middle is people's law. That's what I want to focus on today. The idea of people's law. That is, who is

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it who really rules? Who is it who is designed then to manage government, to shape its institutions and

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its forms? And it is indeed the people, we the people of the United States of America, in order to form a

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more perfect union, to establish justice. And then on and on we go with the other four items of what

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government is, we the people. The idea of people's law is that which is right in the dead center middle

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between complete dictatorship and complete chaos. And that is what our founding fathers understood as

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well. Our founding fathers understood that it is people's law which should shape government in the

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long run. And so we continue then with the idea of people's law. What is essential for us to remember

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as Americans is that we strive for the power model of people's law, which has a number of salient

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features that we must note. What are the features of people's law? Okay, first of all, under people's

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law, men relate to one another as free men. They are not subjects of a king as under ruler's law, nor are

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they anonymous non-entities as they are under the anarchy of no law, which is precisely what people are

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which is precisely what the left is trying to lead us to today, anarchy in the streets of America.

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Instead, under people's law, each man is a freeman who has the constitutional balance of liberty

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countered by responsibility under law. And then secondly, we also note, under people's law,

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no major decision is made without the consent of the governed. That is the people who live under that

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law. That is the same principle that motivated our founding fathers to cry, no taxation without

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representation. And then thirdly, under people's law, power is decentralized. We need to return to this

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vital, vital principle of people's law. That is, power is decentralized, being concentrated insofar as

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possible at the local level. This is wise. It is wise to have local families band together to educate

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their children or build roads and bridges or take care of our poor amongst us. To have an outside entity

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do these things like the federal government is a sure sign of encroaching tyranny, dear listener. And then

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under people's law as well. Fourthly, under people's law, individual rights are seen as unalienable and

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bestowed by God, not by government. So many people in America today are brainwashed into thinking that

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it is government's responsibility or job to give or take rights away from people as they see fit.

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It's one of the prime tyrannies of both left and right in modern America. The left may bestow fewer

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liberties, the right slightly more, or vice versa, depending on your political affiliation. But the

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source for those rights and liberties is the same for both. That is, it's the government. But both left

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and right in America today function as if rights and liberties come from them in government, rather than

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being an inherent property of every individual bestowed graciously by God in heaven, not by Obama or

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Biden in Washington, D.C. Oh, these features, plus many more, characterize people's law and distinguish

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it from the other two more radical alternatives, and that's ruler's law and no law or anarchy. Make no

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mistake about this, dear listener. Our founding fathers knew precisely the difference between them,

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and they crafted our constitution to embody people's law, in utter contrast to the other

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extremes. The general public knows very little of this distinction today. Public schools don't teach it

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in government and civics classes, no. But rather, the general public continues to labor under the

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misconception that the major differences in our nation fall between liberal and conservative,

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rather than ruler's law, that is tyranny, and no law, and that is anarchy. All nations throughout

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history have waffled between these two extremes. Only America has maintained a consistent middle way

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with people's law. How much longer can we survive, dear listener? Do we even know what we face?

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Our founding fathers did. This precondition for understanding our constitution was not new,

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as it is for many Americans today. It was the standard knowledge for our predecessors.

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With this in mind, let me outline several other preconditions for understanding the 28 principles of

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the constitution. We will be covering the 28 principles of the constitution outlined by the

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5,000-year leap, which is published, of course, by the National Center for Constitutional Studies,

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a wonderful organization that has published many fine works on the constitution and its founding

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principles. And we're reviewing the 5,000-year leap, which was published then by the National Center

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for Constitutional Studies. And you can find it at nccs.org. nccs.org. And Dr. Skousen is the one who

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indeed published that work in league with a number of other researchers. But this is a wonderful,

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wonderful work. And we're reviewing then the 28 principles outlined in that 5,000-year leap.

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Well, in a day of exalting supposed cultural diversity, which we live in today,

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and so many on the left celebrate cultural diversity as a positive good, it's important to keep in mind

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that the America at its founding was a single unified cultural monolith. Yes, our founding fathers saw

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cultural diversity as a weakness and not a strength. As Michael Medved points out in his book,

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The Ten Big Lies About America, an excellent work outlining some fallacies that so many on the left

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embrace, and he calls it The Ten Big Lies About America. Well, in that, our founding fathers affirmed

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not only our homogenous Anglo-Protestant society, but they also took great pride in our common language,

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which was English, which was Western European, and our core religious values, which were Judeo-Christian.

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The lie here is that we were somehow diverse in our ethnicity, which we were not. We were diverse

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in our language, which we were not. 90% of us were English speakers. And the lie is that we were

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diverse in our religion, which we were not. We were Christian, and that we wanted to keep it this way,

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right? That we were diverse in our religion and language and culture and so forth. No, on the

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contrary, there was a rush to fulfill the vision of America and shed the identities of Europe or Africa

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or any other land of the past and be a new man. To be an American was the aspiration. One Frenchman

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observed, and his name was de Krakow, he said, here in America, individuals of all nations are melted

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into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world, unquote.

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Oh, yes. Hasn't it been true? It is simply false that our founding fathers embraced cultural diversity

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and that they wanted to maintain cultural diversity. No, no, no. It's difficult for us in the 21st century

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of a late America to recall the sheer inspiration that America was for the entire world at our beginning

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in the late 18th century. But the fact that we represented a whole new idea for a nation

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inspired people to come here at any cost. The fact that race and ethnicity was played down,

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not like it is today, not played up, was a motivation to cross the sea and come here at any cost. Race was

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played down. The fact that class differences were no barrier to advancement in America as they were in

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old Europe was a motivation to cross the sea and come here at any cost. The fact that religious

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affiliation was no barrier to public office or material advancement was a motivation to cross

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the sea and come here at any cost. The fact that a premium was placed upon a man's natural talents

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and gifts and not where he was born or the wealth and the title that he may have inherited, right? All of

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this was a motivation to cross the sea and come here at any cost. In America, for them, the powerful draw

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was that a man could work as hard as his energies and his talents would take him and he would succeed

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or fail based on this and not on what the government could do to help or hinder him. That is what that

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man was fleeing from. In the old country of Europe, the very thing we are fleeing to in our own day,

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unfortunately, America at its founding was based upon a man's natural talents and his personal merits

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and not on inherited wealth and privilege and not certainly on government handouts and favors.

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This is what the founding fathers and the thinkers who inspired them, men like John Locke or Adam Smith,

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this is what they called personal self-interest. John Locke in particular talked a great deal about

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personal self-interest. That is, that each man acts to better himself within the limits of a Christian

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moral framework. Yes, that was the American ideal then that John Locke articulated called personal

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self-interest. Each man acts to better himself within the limits of a Christian moral framework.

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There are limits to working for oneself and that is a Christian moral framework and he does so to

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prosper and increase while behaving, tempered, all of this tempered, with behaving with benevolence to

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his fellow man. This was the American dream. This was the vision that founded America, dear listener.

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As Crevecourt says, once again, our Frenchman, we quoted just a minute ago, as he puts it, an observer

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on America. He says, the American ought therefore to love this country much better than that wherein

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either he or his forefathers were born. Here, that is in America. Here, the rewards of his industry follow

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with equal steps the progress of his labor. His labor is founded upon the basis of nature.

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Self-interest, can it want a stronger allurement? Unquote. The idea of enlightened self-interest.

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Dear fellow listener, our founding fathers would chide us in despair for how we have forfeited this dream

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for the paltry vision of a government welfare nanny state. Weak Americans raised in the false notion

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that government is there to act as a mother and father to help us and guarantee that we will not fail.

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These look to a government program to help when things are difficult. What they do not realize

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is that Uncle Sam is more like Tony Soprano, right? The mob boss. And when you take a loan from him,

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he's there not just in the bad times when things are tight for you, but he's there when and if your

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business succeeds and grows, he's there for a taste. Or when you buy a new car, he's there for

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and grows, he's there for a taste. If he's there for a taste, or when you and your wife go out to

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dinner when your daughter gets married, oh, he's always there. That's the federal government.

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In short, you're married to the mob for life or else. It is precisely the same with government.

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They are in the banking business for life now, and Americans are weaker for it. When any individual

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or institution in America is too big to fail, as the banks were so many years ago, you also

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correspondingly, its character is too small to succeed. You are too small to succeed. Any individual

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or institution that needs a government bailout to keep it from failing already by definition has

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shown that its character is too small to succeed. It should be allowed to die. Americans have bounced

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back from more difficult circumstances, and they've been stronger for it. Government, leave us alone,

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and we'll be just fine without you. Well, another precondition for allowing the 28 constitutional

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principles to take hold was an informed and educated electorate. So important. An informed,

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educated electorate is necessary for the 28 constitutional principles to take hold. There

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simply is no way that our Constitution can be maintained and furthered unless our citizenry can

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first read the document and then interact with its principles, thinking deeply through them

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and applying them to everyday life. Our founding fathers in the 18th century knew that even the

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simplest farmhand could do this, even as the reformers of the 16th century knew that the same

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farmhand could read, understand, and apply his Bible to. Our founding fathers thought that true liberty could

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be had in America if every citizen availed himself of these two documents, first and most importantly,

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his Bible, in which he found genuine spiritual liberty, and then secondly, the freshly minted

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constitution in which he would find genuine political liberty. In fact, Noah Webster, when he

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was in the process of making his famous dictionary, saw that two basic documents should grace every

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American's kitchen table, a Bible and a newspaper. The first, to assure spiritual liberty. The second,

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that is, the dictionary, it was truly, or newspaper, it was truly independent paper that understood

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political liberty, to assure political liberty. The newspaper, both he saw, would be a watchdog over

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tyrants. And if our people could read and think, they could vote and fight. Thomas Jefferson puts it

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this way, no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness than a

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literate citizenry. Preach a crusade against ignorance. Establish and approve the law for educating the

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common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of

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misgovernment. Thomas Jefferson. So, the education of the next generation was a passion for our entire

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founding generation as well. There was a vast array of options for them. Most children were educated at home,

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and though it was fairly rudimentary, there was always a Bible in a cabin to read, even as Abraham

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Lincoln witnessed, and perhaps a newspaper, sometimes days or even weeks old. And not too long after the

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revolution, there was Webster's American Dictionary, too. Private schools also began to thrive, and private

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tutors either resided locally or they traveled in a circuit in the young states. Local communities began to

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band together to start public schools in which education would be made available to every child

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in the community, regardless of income. In fact, one of the great proofs they saw for the necessity of

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education, that is, our founding fathers, not so they can text their friends and play with their Xbox,

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no, but rather to read and study their Bibles and their Constitution. One of the proofs they saw for the

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necessity of education was the provision made for schools in that other great but unknown and

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overlooked document, that is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Yes, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made

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provision for education. Past the year our Constitution was approved by Congress, when it was apparent that

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new states would be added to the young republic, the Northwest Ordinance helped young territories make

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a smooth transition to the status of a state. And Article III then of that ordinance says this,

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religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government. Well, Congress wouldn't say

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anything like that today, would they? Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good

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government and the happiness of mankind. Schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged,

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unquote. Towards that end, provision was made for specific tracts of land to be set aside for schools

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in every new territory. So, keep in mind, O fellow citizen, with young ones perhaps swarming about your

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ankles today, wondering how you'll raise them from ignorant, bickering stumps into polite,

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civilized citizens of a free republic, contributing members of America, and free citizens of the heavenly

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kingdom of Jesus Christ. Well, you keep in mind that these schools' missions were not to provide free

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lunches, or reproductive counseling, or condoms, or sex ed, or to be cheerleaders for a particular party.

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Oh, no, but rather to inculcate religion, morality, and knowledge. As the charter of the Northwest

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ordinance declares, oh, and until recently, it was thought foundational to include courses in civics

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and government, too. However, in order to make room for sex ed and Native American and gender and

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check balancing courses, which are deemed far more important, of course, these civics and history and

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government courses have been crowded out. And as I have indicated in previous lectures, I believe

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that there's a purposeful agenda in our modern public schools for keeping your children ignorant

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of these pesky ideas about freedom that may have been good ones, but are just naive in the big bad

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socialist world of today, right? So, we really shouldn't burden our poor little babies with information

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and ideas that are obsolete and irrelevant to the real world. No. Give them casserole, condoms,

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and communism, casserole, condoms, and communism. And whether they can read their diploma or not,

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they will be model citizens of the new world order, and they'll never vote anything but Democrats.

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Well, dear listener, the final precondition that I would like to outline with you before we unpack the

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28 principles of our Constitution is that our founding fathers expected our citizens to be a responsible,

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moral, electric, electorate, excuse me, electric electorate, maybe we can call us. Our founding fathers

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expected our citizens to be a responsible, moral electorate. If our republic was to survive, and as I have

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demonstrated to you in past lectures as well, our founding fathers gave liberty to the states and

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individuals so extensive and absolute that it would be dangerous to give to an immoral and degenerate

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people. So extensive was our liberty. Oh, think of this, dear listener. A straight razor in the hands of

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a sober, competent man is salutary, and he'll use it to keep himself groomed and civilized. But a straight

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razor in the hands of a drunkard or a child or a pathologically enraged man, oh, that straight razor

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presents a danger to himself and society. So it is with liberty. And without liberty's responsible use,

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liberty will only prove a danger to the immoral and unethical, giving them freedom for their destructive

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immoralities that hurt us all. We see this all around us today, do we not? We see it borne out in

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our own culture today. George Washington said, of all the dispositions and habits which lead to

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political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Unquote. George Washington

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indeed saw that religion and morality are indispensable supports to political prosperity.

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I'm going to come back to this again and again, dear listener, because it's so irresistibly relevant.

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But how destructive has the immoral behavior of, for example, Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich

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been to his state or other states? And yea, our nation, the careers of so many corrupt politicians

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like Cuomo is a walking, talking metaphor for the precise thing that we outline here. Cuomo's attempt

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then to brazenly destroy the elderly and the healthy, for that matter, in the recent pandemic plus

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his sexual immoralities is the definition of corruption, isn't it? And yet perhaps it's not so

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much the fact of Cuomo's corruption that's so offensive to modern America, but he was so brazen

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about it and that he got caught. These things are usually done with a wink and a nod, aren't they,

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under the table? And Cuomo's crime is that he spoke so crassly and openly of his crimes. Put it

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right there on the table and did it in the hearing of, then, the public. Dear listener, it is time

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indeed that we meet these preconditions for the 28 principles of the Constitution and the liberties

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that they encompass. It is the absolute requirement that if we are to restore the Constitution of

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America, we must first find repentance and reformation in America. We must educate. We must

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indeed embrace the morality of the Christian religion if we are to survive. Oh, dear listener,

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this has been Pastor David Bass articulating for you the 5,000-year leap and the preconditions

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if we are to apply effectively the 28 principles ensconced in our Constitution. I exhort you to them.

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I exhort you to revival in Jesus Christ and reformation in the Christian faith. Then we will

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be able to return to a true constitutional republic. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva

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Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and we meet for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the

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corner of 4th and Boulevard. If you've been thinking of crossing our threshold and visiting us, we encourage

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you to do so. And we meet at 10 a.m. on Sunday at 101 4th Street. And our phone number is area code

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208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.