A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt…If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.
Thomas Jefferson

Before I went to Mississippi and New Orleans to help with Hurricane Katrina relief a couple weeks after the storm raped the Gulf Coast I was considered by many to be a flag waving Republican. After six months there I returned to Tampa not sure of where I was politically. I spent the past year trying to find my political center, and after reading, writing and research I found out that I am still a Republican, it is the Republican party that has changed not me.

I was brainwashed into believing that what I thought it meant to be a Republican was what the RNC handlers and propaganda machine was spewing out. I, like millions and millions of Americans, bought the lie. I not only bought it, I had spent years trying to sell it. What really is a Republican? Well I will try to explain it, but the only way you will know for sure is to take the journey of political self awareness.

I started reading the Constitution, then the Federalist Papers, than the Anti-Federalist Papers. Out of those I could see what was the concerns about establishing a Republic, and how unless certain principles were adhered to the Republic would fail. I also read some Constitutional law books and numerous Supreme Court rulings that attempted to legally clarify some amendments. Then I read numerous books written by and about our Founding Fathers. The Founders would be disgusted with the direction our nation has taken. They would be disgusted that there were people in office who would want to disarm our citizens, also for turning over the creation of money to a private entity that has members who are not even in the U.S. and hundreds of other atrocities committed in the name of the Constitution and the American people.

To be a true Rebublican means to be pro-defense, anti-war, fiscally conservative, pro-life, believe in less government, believe that the power belongs to the people, promote states rights, anti-censorship, tolerant of the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, oppose taxes and the income tax, oppose the Federal Reserve Act and lastly believe in empowering all humans not creating welfare states. Don’t listen to the lies fed to you by the politicians that run the parties do the research yourself and you will see the truth, and the TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!!!

Some notable quotes from our Founders.

On Liberty:
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry

I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry

On Government:
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry

If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel Adams

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
John Adams

On Foreign Policy:
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson

On Freedom:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

On the Republic and the power of the common man:
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
Thomas Jefferson

On Taxes:
…a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

On Religion:
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
Patrick Henry

On Gun Control:
The Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

On War:
We’re in a war, dammit! We’re going to have to offend somebody!
John Adams

Some of the books I read, I am including a link to Barnes and Noble for each book so you can read a summary only, not to buy. I got all these books from my public library:
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
David O. Stewart
Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies
Erwin Chemerinsky
The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
Linda R. Monk
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
Ralph Ketcham
Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
Constitutional Law
Erwin Chemerinsky
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Richard Labunski
Constitutional Law in a Nutshell
Jerome A. Barron
A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
Peter H. Irons
Hornbook on Constitutional Law
John Nowak
Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security
David Cole
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
James F. Simon
Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials
William Cohen
The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land
Andrew P. Napolitano
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and how We the People Can Begin Correcting It)
Sanford Levinson
Constitutional Law and Politics, Volume One: Struggles for Pwer and Governmental Accountability
David M. O’Brien
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Jack N. Rakove
Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
Kermit L. Hall
All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
William H. Rehnquist
Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic
Alan Ray Gibson

This is just a small list, if you would like to get the full list send me an e-mail and I will send it to you.

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