For a stable government Capital punishment is a fundamental principle to a stable government. Someone has said, If we learn one thing from history it is that we don t learn anything from history. No government can long continue whose laws are broken with impunity. No free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. One of their favorite methods, to this end, is to promote programs and laws that will bring a progressive breakdown in law and order.
Revolution can take place only under a weak government.
Contempt for law, a defective state of morals, and a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with a free and stable government. We must see a strengthening of law and justice, a reformation of morals and a renewed public conscience or we will surrender our free society to Communism. This can be brought about only as we return as a nation to God s fundamental principles. Equal Justice Under Law. Capital punishment is a fundamental principle for equal justice under law.