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David Barton
Aledo, Texas
David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that presents America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious and constitutional heritage.
Interests: David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that presents America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on our moral, religious and constitutional heritage. WallBuilders is a name taken from the Old Testament writings of Nehemiah, who led a grassroots movement to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and restore its strength and honor. In the same way, WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to become involved in strengthening their communities, states, and nation. David is the author of numerous best-selling books, with the subjects being drawn largely from his massive library of tens of thousands of original writings from the Founding Era. He also addresses well over 400 groups each year. His exhaustive research has rendered him an expert in historical and constitutional issues and he serves as a consultant to state and federal legislators, has participated in several cases at the Supreme Court, was involved in the development of the History/Social Studies standards for states such as Texas and California, and has helped produce history textbooks now used in schools across the nation. David was named by Time magazine as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals, and he has received numerous national and international awards, including Who's Who in Education and DAR's highest award, the George Washington Honor Medal. His work in media has merited several Angel Awards, Telly Awards, and the Dove Foundation Seal of Approval. David and his wife Cheryl have three grown children, Damaris, Timothy, and Stephen, and reside in Aledo, TX.
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As previously noted, the Court’s standard for what constitutes an unconstitutional religious activity had grown increasingly more narrow and restrictive from case to case; the Weisman case proved no exception. In it, the Court introduced a new test for constitutionality: the “psychological coercion test.” Under this test, if a single... Continue reading
Posted Aug 16, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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The Alabama State legislature had simply permitted a voluntary, silent activity; the Court concluded that this was the equivalent of encouraging a religious activity and was thus an impermissible establishment of religion. Ironically, Alabama came under the provisions of the U. S. territorial ordinance which had declared that: Religion, morality,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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A carving of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, if that is the only adornment on a courtroom wall, conveys an equivocal unclear and uncertain message, perhaps a respect for Judaism, for religion in general, or for law. It was striking that in Stone the Supreme Court completely ignored the facts... Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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One further note from this decision: a concurring Justice observed that, through this ruling, the Court was now assuming “the role of a super board of education for every school district in the nation” an ominous prediction of what has now become the norm. Engel v. Vitale, 1962 For fourteen... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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And as my children will have frequent occasion of perusing this instrument and may probably be particularly impressed with the last words of their father, I think it proper here not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great and leading doctrines of the Christian religion, such as... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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If the Founders were generally men of faith, then it is illogical to believe that they would establish public policies either to prohibit or to inhibit expressions of the faith they cherished. On the other hand, if the contemporary portrayal is correct, and if as many now claims the Founders... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Historian Daniel Dorchester reported numerous other similar incidents: Of Rev. John Craighead it is said that “he fought and preached alternately.” Rev. Dr. Cooper was captain of a military company. Rev. John Blair Smith, president of Hampden-Sidney College, was captain of a company that rallied to support the retreating Americans... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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By George Washington’s own words, what youths learned in America’s schools “above all” was “the religion of Jesus Christ.” The American Revolution and the Acts of the Continental Congress The seeds of separation between America and Great Britain had been sown as early as 1765 when Great Britain began to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Even Jefferson and Madison, touted by today’s liberal groups as champions of tolerance, strongly opposed anything except monogamous heterosexual relationships. This is established by the fact that they enacted the death penalty for bigamy and polygamy and that Jefferson himself proposed “castration” as the penalty for sodomy. Although the argument... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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It seems logical that if this had been the intent of the Founding Fathers for the First Amendment as is so frequently asserted then at least one of those ninety would have mentioned that phrase; none did. Since the “separation” phrase was used so infrequently by the Founders, and since... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Yet, even though the Founders openly acknowledged their veneration for Judaism, they nonetheless believed that the teachings of Christ provided the greatest benefit for civil society. Thomas Jefferson explained: The precepts of philosophy, and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. He Jesus pushed his scrutinies into the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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The Constitution therefore received only marginal approval in several states, and North Carolina even refused to ratify unless clear restraints were placed on the power of the federal government (Chapter 10 contains greater details on how the states voted). The Constitution was eventually ratified, but a clear message had been... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Yet no one from any background whether political, religious, or racial should ever love any political party above principle. Although history is clear that there have been major differences in how political parties treated black Americans, neither party is completely blameless in all of its actions nor have all the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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How has Pastor Jackson handled this incident that so early shaped his own life and that of his family? In the same way that so many others from that era – and from previous eras – handled the degradation and injuries: relying on their faith in God, they forgave their... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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In 1876 presidential candidates, Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. Voter fraud by Democrats was indeed a problem in the South. In addition to changing the voting counts or intimidating voters, Harper’s Weekly showed another way that southern Democrats were able to obtain additional votes: they simply took the names... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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That civil rights bill did pass, but regrettably, Rep. Lynch did not receive the surprise he had hoped for; it was exactly as he had suspected: not a single one of the 114 Democrats in Congress voted for that civil rights bill; that bill like the other civil rights bills... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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His life, his writings, prove that he was nelly (right) grew up at mt. vernon had no doubts, no years of devoted affection and their marriage, she resigned George at his deathout a murmur, into the arms with the assured hope of his happiness in Heaven. Is it necessary that... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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The original Maxims of Washington was recently reprinted in its entirety 70 – at least, almost in its entirety. The difference was that the introduction to each section was changed; and in the section on Washington’s religious maxims, the personal, eye-witness testimonies from those who declared George Washington to be... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Today, the Old House Chamber is better known as National Statuary Hall – titled this because this room now houses the bulk of the statues found at the Capitol. One of those statues is of Ethan Allen, an officer in the American Revolution who became famous for his capture of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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In the Old Speaker’s Chamber, John Quincy Adams faced death, looked it square in the face with a full awareness of its implications, and displayed no fear. This confirmed to observers that he indeed was a Christian, for he had died as he had lived – with a firm reliance... Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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John Witherspoon may have trained more influential early American leaders than any other individual, for of the students that he personally instructed, one became a U. S. President,one a Vice-President, three became Supreme Court Justices, 13 were governors, and at least 20 became senators and 30 more became congressmen –... Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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Indisputably, our early educational system was remarkable; and since an ancient axiom accurately notes, “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next,” it is appropriate to examine closely the educational philosophy that produced the longest on-going constitutional republic in the history... Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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America is now entering its fifth century of educating students. For every generation throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, providing and obtaining a good education has been a major emphasis; it was that way when the first colonists arrived here four centuries ago, and that goal remains unchanged... Continue reading
Posted Apr 6, 2010 at David Barton's blog
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