Twenty-Eight Principles (1-page)

October 20, 2010
Twenty-Eight Principles

There are few indeed who have not heard of the Founding Fathers, at some point. Each lived an exceptional life that influenced thousands, and continues to influence each generation of new Americans. Separately, they teach important lessons, but it is together that perhaps their greatest influence comes across.
            Together, the Founding Fathers put together America’s government, the accomplishment of which resulted in the strongest and most prosperous nation there has ever been. This was made possible by about twenty-eight different principles that the Founders built on. These overlapped somewhat, but without separation they would become to complex to be of much use.
            These principles addressed such things as, man’s unalienable rights, what the government was and was not supposed to do, and reasons for basing the government on the ideas they were proposing. Each and every principle built on the previous principles, or added a new piece to the whole. Together, these principles were what the Founding Fathers agreed on, and used to build the constitution of America.
            Furthermore, (and not surprisingly) these principles can actually be easily applied to daily life. The Founding Fathers certainly did. Using the principles they used, and understanding how they are represented and utilized in the constitution, makes most current problems in America much easier to understand. Perhaps more important, the solution to solving those problems, is as easy as simply studying to find out what has changed from them since the beginning of government.
The principles by themselves were not enough to run a government, they simply provided the basis for the constitution by which government runs. The constitution, while in time needed amendments, was created by the principles, which time can never change the significance of. Suffice to say that constitutional amendment making is a serious undertaking. Several key issues and problems of today can be traced to misplaced amendments.
            The twenty eight principles, as yet unnamed, can be read about in the book, “The 5000 Year Leap,” a reliable book for schooling. The 5000 Year Leap is laid out in the form of a novel instead of a textbook, making it very accessible and easy to read. Straightforward, and well organized with a minimum of filler reading, also helps to make this book as a schoolbook, well, so close to fun to read that it’s ridiculous. There is, however, a fairly long introduction, but that serves to set up a viewpoint from which to take in the principles from. This is appreciated as more of the book is read.
I highly recommend The 5000 Year Leap, to the point of saying that it should be required reading for high school students. The principles alone would merit reading, but the implications of such a more complete view of how government was started is invaluable. Thank you for reading.

Read by whomever is reading at the moment.
Written by Benjamin.
Facts and information taken from The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen.

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