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The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World

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by W. Cleon Skousen


  11. From a newspaper letter, June 1803; Paul Leicester Ford, editor, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10 volumes, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1892-1899, 8:237.

  12. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 1:257.

  13. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:440.

  14. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:440.

  15. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:342.

  16. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 13:358.

  17. William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, 3 volumes, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1865, 1:154.

  18. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:4.

  19. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 5:396-397.

  20. The Federalist Papers, No. 14, p. 105.

  21. William Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963, pp. 122-123.

  22. Quoted in Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 133.

  23. Quoted in Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 133.

  24. Matthew 22:36-40.

  25. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 124.

  26. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 134.

  27. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 134.

  28. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, pp. 134-135.

  29. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 135.

  30. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, pp. 134-35.

  31. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 135.

  32. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:569.

  33. Saul K. Padover, editor, The Washington Papers, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1955, p. 244.

  34. Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1969, p. 68.

  35. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 100.

  36. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 102.

  37. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 102.

  38. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 102.

  39. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 108.

  40. Quoted in Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, p. 110.

  41. Quoted in Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 5 vols., J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1901, 3:536-537; emphasis added.

  42. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 227.

  43. Padover, The Washington Papers, pp. 318-319.

  44. Quoted in Adrienne Koch, ed., The American Enlightenment, George Braziller, New York, 1965, p. 77.

  45. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 3:175.

  46. Quoted in John R. Howe, Jr., The Changing Political Thought of John Adams, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1966, p. 189.

  47. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:22-23.

  48. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:22.

  49. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:22.

  50. The Federalist Papers, No. 51, p. 322.

  51. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9:425.

  52. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 2:221.

  53. Quoted in Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 128.

  54. Quoted in Koch, The American Enlightenment, p. 189.

  55. Quoted in Koch, The American Enlightenment, p. 189; emphasis added.

  56. Quoted in Koch, The American Enlightenment, p. 188.

  57. Quoted in Koch, The American Enlightenment, pp. 208-209.

  58. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 7:4.

  59. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:591.

  60. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:591-592.

  61. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:592.

  62. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:592-593.

  63. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:593-594.

  64. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:594-595.

  65. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 9:595.

  66. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 6:409.

  67. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 6:409.

  68. George B. de Huszar, Henry W. Littlefield, and Arthur W, Littlefield, editors, Basic American Documents Littlefield, Adams & Co., Ames, Iowa, 1953, p, 66.

  69. Basic American Documents, pp. 108-109.

  70. J. Randolph, ed., Early History of the University of Virginia, 1856, pp. 96-97.

  71. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 10:84.

  72. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 3:23.

  73. Letter to Jefferson cited in Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 13:293.

  74. Letter to Jefferson cited in Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 14:198.

  75. Basic American Documents, pp. 108-109.

  76. Basic American Documents, pp. 108-109.

  77. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:319.

  78. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:316.

  79. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:319.

  80. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:319.

  81. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:311.

  82. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:314.

  83. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:316.

  84. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:327.

  85. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:320.

  86. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:325; emphasis added.

  87. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols., 1840, Vintage Books, New York, 1945, 1:317.

  88. Quoted in Ezra Taft Benson, God, Family, Country: Our Three Great Loyalties, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1975, p. 360.

  89. This document is reproduced in the supplementary appendix of Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, p. 72.

  90. Supplementary appendix of Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, p. 94.

  91. William C. Rives and Philip R. Fendall, eds., Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, 4 vols., J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1865, 1:163-164.

  92. Kruse, The Historical Meaning and Judicial Construction of the Establishment of Religion Clause of the First Amendment, 1962, 2:65 and 2:94-107.

  93. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 3rd ed,, 2 vols. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1858, 2:666-667, art. 1879; emphasis added.

  94. Elliot, Debates in the State Conventions, 3:330.

  95. Mortimer J. Adler et al., eds., The Annals of America, 18 vols., Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1968, 4:63.

  96. Mortimer J. Adler et al., eds., The Annals of America, 18 vols., Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1968, 4:63; emphasis added.

  97. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 16:282.

  98. Dallin Oaks, ed., The Wall Between Church and State, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963, pp. 2-3.

  99. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 3:378.

  100. Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Article 3.

  101. Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 19 vols. by 1974, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1950, 1:531, note 1; emphasis added.

  102. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 15:404.

  103. Concerning Human Understanding, Great Books of the Western World, vol. 35, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1952, pp. 349-352.

  104. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ed. William Carey Jones, 2 vols., Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1916, 1:52.

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nbsp; 105. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ed. William Carey Jones, 2 vols., Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1916, 1:56-58.

  106. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ed. William Carey Jones, 2 vols., Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1916, 1:64.

  107. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, ed. William Carey Jones, 2 vols., Bancroft-Whitney Co., San Francisco, 1916, 1:65.

  108. Charles Bracelen Flood, Rise and Fight Again, Dodo, Mead & Co., New York, 1976, p. 377.

  109. Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, 30:292.

  110. The Federalist Papers, No. 37, pp. 230-231.

  111. Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, 35:229.

  112. Alexis de Touqueville, Democracy in America, 1:317.

  113. Alexis de Touqueville, Democracy in America, 1:317.

  114. Clarence Carson, The American Tradition, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1970, pp. 112-113.

  115. Quoted in Koch, The American Enlightenment, p. 222.

  116. Laile Bartlett, "The Education of Eldridge Cleaver," Reader's Digest, September 1976, pp. 65-72.

  117. Harold C. Syrett et al., eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, 19 vols. by 1973, Columbia University Press, New York, 1961, 4:218.

  118. Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:154.

  119. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 10:64.

  120. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 5:538.

  121. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 5:123.

  122. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 3:135-136.

  123. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 3:136-137.

  124. Smyth, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 3:135.

  125. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, Great Books of the Western World, vol. 35, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, 1952, p. 26, par. 6.

  126. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:93.

  127. Annals of America, 2:432.

  128. George A. Peek, Jr., ed., The Political Writings of John Adams, Liberal Arts Press, New York, 1954, p. 96.

  129. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:219-220; emphasis added.

  130. Quoted in Judson A. Crane, Natural Law in the United States, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 6:144.

  131. Frederic Bastiat, The Law, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1974], pp. 5-6.

  132. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:59-60.

  133. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:64.

  134. For a complete codification of these laws, see W. Cleon Skousen, The Third Thousand Years, Bookcraft, Inc., Salt Lake City, 1964, pp. 651-682.

  135. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 16:282.

  136. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:208.

  137. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Introduction, sec. 2, par. 39.

  138. Colin Rhys Lovell, English Constitutional and Legal History, Oxford University Press, New York, 1962, p. 36.

  139. Colin Rhys Lovell, English Constitutional and Legal History, Oxford University Press, New York, 1962, p. 7.

  140. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 56, par. 135.

  141. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:54, 56, 63.

  142. Algernon Sidney, Discourses on Government, 3 vols., Printed for Richard Lee by Deare and Andres, New York, 1805, 2:18.

  143. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, pp. 70-71, par. 198; emphasis added.

  144. Lovell, English Constitutional and Legal History, p. 5.

  145. The Federalist Papers, No. 22, p. 152.

  146. Quoted by Hamilton Albert Long, Your American Yardstick, Your Heritage Books, Inc., Philadelphia, 1963, p. 167; emphasis added.

  147. The Federalist Papers, No. 46, p. 294; emphasis added.

  148. Annals of America, 2:447-48.

  149. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, pp. 75-76, par. 222; emphasis added.

  150. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 47, par. 96- 97.

  151. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 73, par. 208-9; emphasis added.

  152. Annals of America, 2:432; emphasis added.

  153. The Federalist Papers, No. 10, p. 81.

  154. The Federalist Papers, No. 14, p. 100.

  155. The Federalist Papers, No. 39, p. 241.

  156. The New York Times, January 28, 1919.

  157. The Federalist Papers, No. 10, p. 81.

  158. The Federalist Papers, No. 39, p. 241.

  159. The Federalist Papers, No. 25, p. 164.

  160. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Annals of America, 4:65-66; emphasis added.

  161. Quoted in Jacob M. Braude, Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia, 2 vols., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962, 1:326.

  162. The Federalist Papers, No. 51, p. 322; emphasis added.

  163. Elliot, Debates in the State Conventions, 3:87.

  164. "Memorial and Remonstrance," in Rives and Fendall, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, 1:163; emphasis added.

  165.Psalm 115:16.

  166. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 30, par. 25.

  167.Genesis 1:28.

  168. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, pp. 30-31, par. 26-27.

  169. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 31, par. 27-29.

  170. George Sutherland, "Principle or Expedient?", Annual Address to the New York State Bar Association, 21 January 1921, p. 18.

  171. Quoted in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, May 1955, p. 7.

  172. John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government, p. 57, par. 138.

  173. Charles Francis Adams, ed., The Works of John Adams, 10 vols., Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1850-1856, 6:9, 280; emphasis added.

  174. Saul K. Padover, ed., The Complete Madison, Harper & Bros., New York, 1953, p. 267.

  175. 2 Dall 304, 310 [Pa. 1795]; emphasis added.

  176. Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1951, p. 583.

  177. "Why the President Said No," in Essays on Liberty, 12 vols., The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1952-65, 3:255; emphasis added.

  178. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 8:31.

  179. Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, 14:313.

  180. Introduction to The Wealth of Nations, "Heirloom Edition," 2 vols., Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, no date, page v.

  181. Introduction to The Wealth of Nations, "Heirloom Edition," 2 vols., Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, no date, pp. v-vi.

  182. Introduction to The Wealth of Nations, "Heirloom Edition," 2 vols., Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, no date, page vi.

  183.Article I, Section 8, clause 5.

  184. Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, 11:217.

  185. Quoted in Olive Cushing Dwinell, The Story of Our Money, 2nd ed., Forum Publishing Company, Boston, 1946], p. 84.

  186. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:133.

  187. Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:133.

  188. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 13:420.

  189. Quoted in Gertrude Margaret Coogan, Money Creators, Omni Publications, Hawthorne, California, 1974, p. 217.

  190. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 12:379-80.

  191. Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9:337-338.

  192. William Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers, p. 110.

  193. George Saintsbury, "Montesquieu," Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 29 vols., University Press, Cambridge, England, 1910-1911, 18:776.

 

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