Congress can pass legislation, but if we are not alert, a despotic government will find ways to impose its will, as they are doing now in the attempt to authorize a UN treaty that overrules U.S. constitutional law. Alexis de Tocqueville, who came to this country in 1831, brilliantly described the strengths and weaknesses of the American democratic system and foresaw many of the problems that have been encountered in our own time. In a nation that has enjoyed the fruits of democracy, he warned that there is a tendency to become complacent and to allow government to grow out of its banks like a river in flood, until it swamps the nation with rules and regulations and a form of centralized authority that is no longer democracy, but despotism. Peoples are lulled to sleep by the temporary prosperity it engenders, and when they do wake up, they are wretched. His image describes so faithfully what we are experiencing today, it s hard to believe those words were written more than 160 years ago.
Scripture is clear on the rights and responsibilities of parents and children.
For that reason, those who seek to elevate the rights of children at the expense of parents are at war with God s original design and, therefore, with God Himself. A Novel . Copyright 1997, Coral Ridge Ministries. All rights reserved. Copyright 1997, Coral Ridge Ministries All rights reserved.