America - Tom Newman - Bog

America: What the Hell Went Wrong, is essentially the first 200 years of Colonial American History. However, to understand what our Founding Fathers grappled with we have to understand history in general. The Founders considers the impact of some of the major events in history and the consequences those events meant for their country, government and their citizens. These events had an impact on the Founders and in their process of forming a nation, by creating a new form of government. That means we must consider the origins of major worldwide events: Christianity, the Catholic Church, The Protestant Reformation, the Inquisition, and the theory of evolution. Our Founding Fathers saw the history of failed democracies; from Rome to Greece to the Weimar Republic, they struggled to create an entirely new form of Government. Governments left unchecked are prone to corruption and an abuse of their powers. An abuse of power eventually leads to encroachments on the liberties of its citizens. The Founders designed a government based on a written Constitution, based on written law, not on the whims of a capricious government, or a king or monarchy. The Founders did not rely on man's law, but on God's revealed law. They designed a government that would protect the rights of its citizens, not work to limit those rights. The basic premise is that these rights are given to man from God, therefore they are unalienable, and cannot be taken from man by any government, so the Founders set about to create a government with the purpose of protecting the rights of its citizens. To be an American citizen it is important to understand the intent of the Founding Fathers. What issues they grappled with, what was their reasoning process and what was it they hoped to accomplish?