This is a great article about the Scots-Irish influence on the founding of our once great nation. I think our fall will be directly tied to the rejection of the inherent depravity of man. James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president... studied at the College of New Jersey, even staying an extra year after graduation in 1771 to study Hebrew. Witherspoon had taught his students about balanced political structure where misuse of power may be corrected. Madison had apparently also imbibed from Witherspoon the old Calvinist doctrine of total depravity and man’s natural inclination to vice and political corruption. Largely through Madison’s influence as a chief architect of the U.S. Constitution, the genius of the American republican democracy would include a complex system of checks and balances, preventing political power from ever resting in the hands of a tyrannical few.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:10:04 +0000
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