Dan Clements, Your Constitutional Warrior Thursday January 26 2017

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835/1840) is one of the books on my reading list. I have read a few chapters and some important point that Tocqueville has made in the book and it is amazing the clarity of thought that Tocqueville has when critiquing the American democracy (Republic) as he traveled around our new nation.

What struck me most in an article I read Tocqueville and Democracy’s Fall in America at thepublicdiscourse.com was his forewarning of our Republics fall if we failed to keep morals, virtue, and equality in their proper places. Tocqueville also spoke of ethics based on what the body politic wanted at the time and that could change in the future and cause the lines of distinction to be blurred on a whole host of things, especially equality.

We all stand equal before God and the law, and what we do with that equality is what defines us and makes us different from each other!!!

Daily Bible reading: Dan 2:16-22 So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time, that he might tell the king the interpretation. 17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the decision known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, 18 that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. 21 And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. 22 He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.