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Brenda homeschooled her 4 (now grown) K-12. Juli currently homeschools three children 11-17 years old. This podcast is recorded while we go on our weekly walk. Our goal is to encourage you as you raise your children. Please let us know if you have topics that you would like us to cover related to Christian faith, parenting, and homeschooling. Thanks for listening!
Scripture read: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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Constitutional Conversation 3rd Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. 3A
The reason the framers added this amendment to our Constitution is that they had experienced King George III putting soldiers in their homes before and during the American Revolution! Can you imagine having big burly soldiers in your home who hated you and your country and you being commanded to feed and provide for them? Even if they abused you and your family, you could not kick them out. This is why they explained what they had gone through in this paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Then they appealed to the king with these two grievance:
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” and “For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us”
Thank you, Lord, that it is illegal for Americans to be forced to house armies in our homes. We thank You for this Freedom and give You all the glory, In Jesus, name. Amen.
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I have learned many of these quotes from The Making of America by Cleon Skousen. You may purchase it here.
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“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 NIV
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