1:39 The church is one form of government
2:00 A different kind of society
2:30 Families – the fruit of society
3:40 Entrepreneurship
4:08 Industry, righteousness, service = self-sustainability
5:00 Democracy is 51% deciding
5:20 Power corrupts
6:10 Self-government
6:30 Each church a republic
6:52 Lives of Isaac Heath, and John Bowles, elders of the church, and principal founders of the grammar school in Roxbury: (1850) and of Rev. John Eliot, Jr. Preacher to the Indians
7:20 Electoral College
7:58 Juries make law
8:33 Levites of Israel
8:38 A true republic
9:00 Saul brought democracy
9:35 Rehoboam
9:45 America is a covetous democracy
10:00 American Creed
10:20 Democracy in a republic vs indirect democracy
11:06 Right to vote
11:41 Oath of U.S. citizenship
12:00 A nation of consumers
13:25 Homeschooling
15:50 James Madison “Democracy is the most vile form of government.”
16:33 Fisher Ames “Democracy is a volcano…”
17:28 John Adams “Democracy is more bloody…”
18:30 Miltias
18:40 John Marshall “…democracy is chaos, republic is order…”
19:08 Alexander Hamilton “liberty is never found in…democracy”
19:28 Benjamin Franklin “when the people find that they can vote themselves money, it will herald the end of the republic.”
19:56 Investment – create a local business
22:50 Righteousness
23:13 Loyalty to righteousness, law, judgment, mercy, faith
23:40 Plato “Dictatorships naturally arise out of democracy.”
24:00 Ralph Waldo Emerson “Democracy is morose…”
24:30 Selfishness
24:41 Winston Churchill “Socialism…the best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.”
25:10 The Spirit of American Government J. Allen Smith – Federal Convention
30:49 Self-sacrifice, fiscal responsibility
31:38 Governments are bankrupt
32:22 Children are born in debt
32:48 One Child Contract – China
35:14 Abraham Lincoln “…you have…become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises amongst you.”
35:50 Promote the right of choice.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon – sovereignty
36:42 Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil…
37:04 Benjamin Rush “A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”
37:20 Proverbs 1:10 The greedy multitude (majority) devouring the innocent
40:30 Covetousness
40:35 The modern church, warning against rejecting God’s ways
42:32 church as Small Business Administration, education, health, welfare
43:00 Gallstones, kidney stones, apple juice, magnesium
44:30 Ubuntu
45:15 Fear of the Lord
45:44 Dwell safely, be quiet from fear of evil
46:25 Definition of democracy in 1928 – U.S. Army Training Manual
48:00 Definition of democracy in 1952 – U.S. Army Training Manual
49:00 Benjamin Disraeli – fruits of democracy, wars, diminished authority and independence, devalued property
50:14 Benjamin Franklin “…well-informed men cannot be enslaved”
51:25 Benjamin Franklin “It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins”
51:45 Reece Committee Report
52:05 Empowerment in Christianity
52:30 Virtue
52:46 Constitutional republic, Patrick Henry
53:20 Noble individuals make America great, not the Constitution
53:40 James Russell Lowell “Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor”
