Benedictine Confederation

The Supreme Court case United States v. Seeger stemmed from an issue within Section 6 (j) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1958. In Section 6 (j) an exemption was offered for conscientious objectors from military service. Their belief of a “Supreme Being” had to be parallel to that of a person believing in a god and fulfilling their duties to that god. Daniel Seeger held a sincere belief that war would damage his soul for having to kill other men. Instead of claiming belief…

What man does not crave possession and security. “Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political…

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the delegates shared a commitment to an independent judiciary. People thought it would be good to have a co equal branch to serve alongside the legislative and executive branches.but delegates did not show up to philadelphia with a fully developed plan for the judicial branch. It has the ability to create courts, interpret the law,determining whether a specific law conforms to the Constitution,and applying the law to specific cases, typically ones that…

The Federalist papers were written in 1787 and 1788 (anonymously at the time) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay which wrote under the pen name “Publius”. The Federalist papers consisted of eighty-five essays that argues of their support to the United States Constitution; The papers urged citizens to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The Federalist paper No. 10 was written by James Madison. James Madison took the same subject as the Federalist paper No. 9 which was…

even acknowledging that other countries do not have the privilege we do, and at one point in time, neither did we. America started out as thirteen colonies under the power of the British king. The existing government at the time, the Articles of Confederation, was weak and had no real power. Therefore, fifty-five delegates representing twelve of the thirteen states met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write the constitution. America was in desperate need of a new constitution, one that had a strong…

The sight of numbers renders a sensation that words generally don’t. They utterly stump many, yet make complete sense to others. However, for all the commotion they cause, they possess a fatal weakness; they’re meaningless without context. One prominent quantity in the US Constitution is 27. Indeed, there have been 27 total amendments to the American Constitution, but take out the original ten, which was part of the Bill of Rights, and the fact that two of them were used to adjust the drinking…

Fifty Sovereign Nations? The United States is exactly what its name says: a group of states united together to form a single nation. But what are these states? Are they independent nations? Just areas of land with boundaries drawn around them? A state is a geopolitical unit that has sovereignty—the authority to govern itself. Mexico and China are states, but so are Georgia and Pennsylvania. The difference is, Mexico and China have complete authority inside their borders, just like all sovereign…

The documentary Are We to Be a Nation was directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. The writer was Ronald Blumer. This is episode 6 of the season 1 series of Liberty! The American Revolution. The cast consist of numerous actors/actresses including Jane Adams, David Bishins, Rob Campbell, and Colm Feore. The host of the series is award winning journalist and ABC news anchor Forrest Sawyer. The narrator is Edward Herrmann. This history/war documentary is the story of how armistice is impending…

Only delegates from Pennsylvania and Virginia were present at the Constitutional Convention which opened on May 14, 1787. At the Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, seventy delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention, but out of them seventy only fifty-five delegates attended. Thirty-nine delegates signed the Constitution. George Mason, Edmund Randolph, and Elbridge Gerry were three delegates who did not sign the Constitution because the Bill of Rights were not…

While the amount of statistics is fairly slim, there is general consensus that most Americans cannot in most cases list all fifty states. We can go even further by assuming that the smaller the state or the less “relevant” it is in national affairs, the lesser the chances are that people will know it. Rhode Island is such a state. It is small geographically, unrepresentative of the national racial diversity we observe here in the United States, and has an economy which barely gives the state any…