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Principles of The Declaration & Constitution: Imago Dei, True Law, Church & State, and Happiness

Drawing on Biblical teachings and the writings of Aristotle, Locke, and Cicero, I discuss some of the most basic and perhaps least known principles underlying the Declaration and Constitution of the United States. This episode is taken from a live speech I delivered at a church event commemorating the Constitution. Afterwards I added in about five additional minutes of content that time constraints had required me to omit earlier. 00:00 - Introduction 00:43 - Abraham Lincoln: Apple of Gold, Frame of Silver 04:30 - Smith, Montesquieu, Benson, Oaks, & Gladstone on the Constitution 08:39 - The Problem of Power 09:21 - Aristotle on Government 10:39 - Lord Acton - Power Corrupts 12:13 - Jerusalem & Athens 12:24 - Imago Dei 13:00 - Equality before God 13:53 - True Law, Samuel & Saul, Cicero 15:48 - The Failure of the Greek Republics, Federalist No. 9 17:10 - Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee, the Ideas Behind the Declaration 18:10 - The Separation of Church and State, Everyone Has a Religion 21:28 - The Changing Meaning of Equality 23:00 - The Pursuit of Happiness, Aristotle 23:52 - Virtue, Fulfilling the Measure of One's Creation 23:40 - The Divine Voice of "Reason" Tells Us How to Act, to be Virtuous 26:24 - The Complete Life: Virtue, Wisdom, Judgment, Property 27:30 - Aristotle on Friendship 28:07 - Friendships of Virtue Create Community of Virtue and Justice 29:12 - Solving Society's Problems Through Cooperation, not Coercion 31:46 - Fatal Consequences: Church and State Collapse into One 37:22 - The Founders Warn of the Necessity of Virtue, Morality, & Religion 41:12 - Closing