The Founders and the Family

In today’s vernacular any grouping of individuals is a “family,” with one unit being as good as another, but the Founders had other ideas — and for good reason. ...
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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The Constitution holding our union together is under daily attack by those who would destroy our republican form of government. Perhaps more critical, though, is the fact that our society’s most fundamental unit — the traditional family — is likewise a frequent target of a sustained direct and deadly assault by enemies of liberty.

As the family is the only reliable source of the teaching of virtue and that there is no liberty without virtue, it is easy to see why secular forces are always on the offensive against the family: Destroying the family is the surest and speediest way to abolish freedom and its blessings from the United States of America and the rest of the world.

“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater Measure, than they have it now, They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty,” John Adams declared.

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