6 July 2009
Study the Wisdom of the Founders
Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Constitution in Peril .
Guest Blog by Sharon Anderson
National Center for Constitutional Studies announces free internet course in Constitution.
These “webinars” will begin on July 7th, the first Tuesday in July, and continue each Tuesday for the first four Tuesdays of each month. We will teach our regular Making of America seminar but divide it up into four parts, presenting one part each Tuesday evening for four Tuesdays and then repeat the four parts again each month. It will also give an opportunity for participants to ask questions and have them answered during or after the formal presentation. Each participant may go to our NCCS website and download the applicable pages to the next Tuesday’s webinar. There is no cost for the study guide download or these webinars.
Here is a summary of the subjects covered in each of the four parts:
The Making of America , Part I (first Tuesdays) Few Americans today know the real story of how America was made. The struggle of the Founders through 180 years to discover the ideas of freedom will give you a deep appreciation for these people. As each American today experiences this amazing story, he will want to become an advocate and a teacher of America ’s formula for freedom.
The Making of America Part II (second Tuesdays) In this session we will learn why the Founders called the study of politics a “divine science.” This concept surprises most Americans, but those who hear the story of where the Founders got their great ideas gain a great new hope for America today. One man said, “This is what I always felt inside, but I just have never heard it put in words before.” Also, we will discover why most people in history seem to have to go through a very rough period in order to have the perspective to really appreciate freedom.
The Making of America , Part III (third Tuesdays) In Parts I and II we learned the development of good constitutional ideas in the minds of the Founders. Now in Part III we undertake the study some
of the more profound provisions of the magnificent document we call the Constitution of the United States . We will point out original intent and it will be very apparent how far we have strayed by the examples we give. This is the point that participants begin to ask themselves how we could have gotten so far off base!
The Making of America , Part IV (fourth Tuesdays) We continue our study of the greatest freedom document ever written by man. Participants come away with the definite impression that the Founders really did have answers to nearly every problem we have in America today. This document is simple, yet profound. It is beautiful and its principles are universal and everlasting. This concluding session contains ideas and suggestions of what citizens can do now that they know somewhat about the freedom document that made the first free people in modern times.
Are you ready to learn from the Founders in the comfort of your own home? (Go to www.nccs.net/seminars/ for more information and to sign up and then please forward this information to your friends.) Time listed is Mountain Standard Time or Arizona time (which never changes):
Join us for a Webinar. The Making of America , Part 1 of 4
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM MST
Reserve your Webinar seat now at www.nccs.net/seminars
*Participants should download Study Guide for Part I at www.nccs.net prior to the webinar.
**This webinar will be recorded and archived at www.nccs.net
***There is no cost for this webinar
“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the (people) as in ours, it is. . .essential.” George Washington
“In proportion as the structure of a government give force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” George Washington
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