There are about 12, 000 parliamentary assistants working on Capitol Hill for specific senators, representatives, boards, and agencies. Except for televised hearings when they are usually lining the wall behind the legislators, where they are rarely seen in public.
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Do n’t assume that these congressional aides are unimportant because they are largely invisible to the general public. They are, in fact, one of the most important organizations in the money because they spend the majority of their time working on the legislative process regularly.
In return for laying the groundwork for negotiating offers, researching and writing proposed policy, managing internet access to their leaders, and advising them on how to vote on legislation before Congress, they are frequently forced to work long hours, receive small pay, and have little job security.
In summary, First Branch of the federal government is a hidden but extraordinarily powerful and influential institution. They are bright, highly educated, experienced communicators, and optimistic.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that, according to a Legistorm research of data, about one of every 12 legislative aides now graduated from either an undergraduate or graduate system offered by one of the Ivy League colleges.
Request a random sample of them, and most legislative advisers would be unable to recognize the speech of the following phrases uttered by one of the most renowned people of the Founders:
Does a nation’s liberties be perceived as safe when their only solid foundation is a faith in the minds of the individuals that these freedoms are the gift of God?
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Or the person who spoke these terms:
I have lived, dear, for a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proof I can find that God is in charge of men’s matters. And if a sparrow may fall to the ground without God’s approval, is it likely that an kingdom will fall without His assistance?
We have been assured, dear, in the spiritual texts, that’ except the Lord build the house, they labor in naught that build it.’ Without His consenting support, I strongly believe this, and I also think that we will succeed in this social construction no more than the Babel builders did.
In his delightful” Information on the State of Virginia,” it is also possible that a representative of a representative example of the American public would be unable to recognize the fact that Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the next President of the United States, spoke in the first instance.
In the same way, few of the supporters or public figures do understand the following phrase as having been uttered by Benjamin Franklin at the 1787 Constitutional Convention’s opening address.
The depressing truth is that the elite universities and common education systems of America have long since stopped teaching our children that the Christian faith was a crucial issue, even if it was not the only one, in the emergence of the American Revolution and the development of the United States Constitution.
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” Hold on there now, Tapscott, were n’t Jefferson and Franklin both well-known Deists, not Christians”, you may well be asking, and you would be correct. None of these esteemed Members people professed to follow Jesus Christ, the main figure of the Christian faith.
Notice, however, how the two men in the above quotations make themselves known for their articulation of two of the most important principles of the Christian belief in the supremacy of all personal privileges and the sovereignty of the royal God in men’s political affairs.
The historical background indicates that Jefferson, Franklin, and a small majority of the assembled men, who were most likely to have seen the world and themselves through the Christian faith, were insignificant among the signatories of the Declaration and the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
A great book,“ The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States,“ with 1, 000 plus sites written by writer and reverend Benjamin F. Morris more than a century ago, is available.
The Founders deliberately understood that America was a society of Christians who in their minds, hearts, and do lived and breathed their devotion. This function is the Magnum Opus of documents.
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The person who founded that belief was the first person to say,“ Render unto Caesar that is Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s,“ and that is the first man known in history. When you comprehend that idea, you can begin to understand the defining meaning of Jefferson’s majestic Preamble to the Declaration of Independence (emphasis added ):
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that , they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.
Tomorrow’s Part 2 will feature a sizable portion of the evidence that Mr. Morris had so long ago, and Thursday’s Part 3 will examine a recent, modest effort to restore this historical memory among congressional aides. Stay tuned!