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The Founding Fathers — heroes or villains?

  By   Tad Callister , Published in the Deseret News July 1, 2010 Were the Founding Fathers heroes, or as some claim, villains? Ted Stewart, a federal judge, put this question in its proper light: “Today, it is common to criticize the founders of America. Judging them by today’s standards of equality and justice they do fail. Some owned slaves, none fought to give women equal rights. Most were wealthy white men. …   “But there is just one problem with judging them by today’s standards and it is this: but for those imperfect founders and the sacrifices that they made and the instruments of government which they created, there would be no current, enlightened standards of equality and justice by which to judge them.” Judge Stewart is so right. The reason the critics can freely criticize, protest, vote for change, run for office and exercise freedom of religion or irreligion as they choose is for one reason and one reason only, because...
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The Role of Education in Building a Moral Society

  The Role of Education in Building a Moral Society (By Tad R. Callister) A speech given to Liberty Hills Academy Introduction Tonight, I would like to speak about our inspired Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the need for a moral people as a condition to protecting our Constitutional liberties, and the role of education in promoting those necessary moral values. The Founding Fathers First, a word about the Founding Fathers.  Unfortunately, it has become academically in vogue to denigrate many of our national heroes, such as Columbus and the Founding Fathers.   But consider the consequences if God could use only perfect men and women to advance His work; He would be left empty-handed.  To illustrate, suppose I were to tell you these four historical facts about a New Testament character and nothing more: first, Jesus said to him, “Get thee behind me, Satan” (Matthew 16:23); second, the Lord reprimanded him as follows: “O thou of little faith” (Matthew ...
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Video Links

  Chasing American Legends: It’s a show about a homeschooling Christian family that looks into the truth behind various American legends, mostly ones about our Founding Fathers. It’s really inspirational. Each show is only about 25 minutes long. Good for all ages, but middle and high schoolers would get more out of it than elementary. https://www.patriotacademy.tv/series/6UvqMxjd1p4n-chasing-american-legends?channel=original-films Communism/Socialism explanation https://www.facebook.com/reel/1792405377980590
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Amendment 26 & 27

 Credit: Kami Harris Amendment XXVI 1:  The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.   2:  The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.    This amendment gives every American who is eighteen years or older the right to vote. Amendment XXVII No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.  This provision gives the people the right to ensure that any salary changes which Congressman and Senators may give themselves may not be enjoyed by them until after the people express themselves in the next general election.
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Semester 2 Executive Branch or Presidential Powers

https://extension.usu.edu/uyc/files/fun-activities-parliamentary-procedure.pdf https://taylor.extension.wisc.edu/files/2013/01/parliamentaryprocedureguide31_000.pdf Credit: Kami Harris   Simulation: Notice garbage on the floor.  Somebody should do something about this.  This is a mess.  I think the President of iFamily should know about this and take care of it.  Tell Lawson to go get his mom.  When she comes, explain the garbage mess to her.  Have her decide on some crazy rule, so that it doesn’t happen again.  (No more notebooks that don’t have clean edges.  I think I will go and talk with my board and have them check back packs as people come in, so that we don’t end up with a mess like this again.) Thank her for coming in and excuse her. I’m just thinking that this will solve the problem of notebook paper, but what about when people make other messes like… Question :  Do you think this was the best way to handle this?  Why o...
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