https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Annual-Report-1942-1.pdf pg 20
A FAITH WORTH FIGHTING FOR
The fate of democracy, whatever it may be, is also the fate of our institutions of learning. While these institutions in earlier years helped to release the intellectual ferment out of which our modern democracy developed, they are today based upon the intellectual and spiritual foundations which democracy itself has laid. They can exist only so long as democracy exists* Regimented ideas and universities cannot live side by side. A university in exile is an indictment of a civilization. The search for truth and the weighing of values cannot be maintained in a world from which freedom has been banished…
When a progressive, even a long dead progressive, in this case, Raymond Fosdick, refers to our republic as a democracy, it has to be challenged.
Distinguishing between a Democracy and a Republic. The United States is not a democracy, and the Founders used strong words to make clear that their nation should never become one.
Consider the following statements:
Benjamin Rush: “A simple democracy … is one of the greatest of evils” (1789).
James Madison: “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths” (1787).
John Adams: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide” (1814).
Thomas Jefferson: “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for…” (1782)
Edmund Randolph: “…that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.” (1787)
John Marshall: “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” The simple fact is that the United States is a republic (and a constitutional republic at that), not a democracy, by purposeful design
Meanwhile, let’s ask our own question; if a university in exile is an indictment of civilization, how broad is the indictment when our God and our Constitution are nudged into exile? When the supporting framework of our belief in both God and Country, our churches and our Constitution are being diminished into skeletal fabrications by political edicts designed to reshape society at the same time it denies all evidence it is leading US to perdition and denouncing any criticism of their crimes?
Now about those churches…501c3 is not forced on them. Yeah, but
https://www.churchlawcenter.com/church-law/political-activities-by-churches-whats-permitted-and-whats-prohibited/ says there are prohibited political activities. I’ll guess abortion was probably the first one they had to ignore.
One has to wonder why a church lawyer would tell churches they are prohibited from participating in some political activities when the IRS writes on the first line…
Every organization exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code section 501(a) must file an annual information return except:
1. A church, an interchurch organization of local units of a church, a convention or association of churches.
To be perfectly clear:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-integrated-auxiliaries-and-conventions-or-associations-of-churches
Executive orders are directions to employees of the executive branch, and are not binding on anyone else. They must be in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States, and anyone who believes themselves to be injured by an executive order can sue in federal court and ask that the order be overturned.
There have been many times that federal courts have overturned executive orders of Presidents of both major parties.
If an executive order does not violate current law, but Congress doesn’t like it, they can pass a bill overturning such an executive order. However, if the President vetoes the bill, the veto can be overridden only by a vote of 2/3 of each house of Congress