As the title of this blog suggests Like the Founding Fathers, Ordinary People Can Do Extraordinary Things. The only problem is the sentence needs an ending. To make it complete, it should read: “Like the Founding Fathers, ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they become other centered, utilize their private and public virtues, their integrities, which is to follow their hearts by being empathetic and compassionate, and by using their moral compasses, thoughtfully work toward something greater than themselves,
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On my last week’s blog I discussed how our Founding Fathers were an exceptional lot, and touched upon why that was so. This week I will show how ordinary working people of today can exhibit the same treasured personality characteristic that our Founding Fathers exhibited when they founded our country and wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
As I mentioned in my last blog, the principles for living happy,
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In order for our government to meet the expectations of the citizenry it serves, our politicians need to follow the two freedoms under which our Constitution was written, called private and public virtue. They haven’t been doing that of late. As a result, over the years, our system of government has become broken, resulting in the needs of many Americans not being met.
Private virtue involves your personal integrity which urges you to follow your heart and your moral compass,
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On April 10th, 2013, on my blog, (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness), I discussed how Mahatma Gandhi’s definition of happiness applied to our Founding Fathers, when the 55 delegates all gathered in Philadelphia between May and September, 1787, to write the Constitution.
Having just come off winning a hard fought and bloody Revolutionary War, our Founding Fathers were all of similar or of like minds in thinking they wanted to assure each other and the country that what they did at the Constitutional Convention was a recipe in how to preserve life,
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In May, 1787, 55 delegates from the 13 states gathered in Philadelphia to represent them at the Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia. They were chosen to write a document to replace the most inadequate current governing text, the Articles of Confederation. The main reason the Articles were inadequate as a governing document was because it gave the 13 states too much power and sovereignty for the federal government to exert any effective authority over them. Since the Founding Fathers had relatively recently won a bloody battle with England to safeguard America’s freedoms,
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In my book, What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?, I talk about the importance of not only all of us periodically reflecting on our lives from time to time, but for politicians to reflect on their political lives as well. The reason that’s important is because that is the only way we each have in maintaining our personal, and in the case of politicians, their political sense of integrity, which Mitt Romney destroyed when he made his “47 percent” judgment error statement.
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