The Preamble to the Florida Constitution reads, "We, the people of the State of Florida, being grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, in order to secure its benefits, perfect our government, insure domestic tranquility, maintain public order, and guarantee equal civil and political rights to all, do ordain and establish this constitution."
Article I, Section 3 of Florida's Constitution echoes our U.S. Constitution's First Amendment as it asserts, "There shall be no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise thereof."
For Christians, the Bible is God’s inspired Word. It is therefore “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” and to serve as a guide through which “the man of God may be perfected, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 3:16-17 KJV).
This necessity for guidance, in discerning what is good from what is evil, is what the founders referred to as “The Laws of Nature’s God” in the Declaration of Independence, meaning Biblical revelation.
But man was also imbued by the Almighty with reason, the use of which also enables man to discern, more than by animal instinct alone, what is good from what is evil. This is what the founders referred to as “The Laws of Nature” in the Declaration of Independence, meaning natural law.
The “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” are the source of natural rights. Nature, including human nature, obeys natural laws established by its Creator. Revelation, being the inspired Word of God, elevates the requirement for discerning good from evil to that of perfection. This requirement is thus a lifelong journey on God’s creation for the preparation of eternal life in the presence of the Almighty.
God, being the Creator of nature and the source of Revelation, is thus the source of our natural rights. These natural rights are therefore the “unalienable Rights” endowed to man by God noted in the Declaration of Independence. The founders understood these principles in this way and proceeded accordingly. The Declaration of Independence was the scaffold used to build the Constitution of the United States.
This point was asserted by John Quincy Adams during his 1839 “Jubilee of the Constitution,” a discourse celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States.
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Adams wrote:
[T]he virtue which had been infused into the Constitution of the United States, and was to give to its vital existence the stability and duration to which it was destined, was no other than the concretion of those abstract principles which had been first proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence—namely, the self-evident truths of the natural and unalienable rights of man, of the indefeasible constituent and dissolvent sovereignty of the people, always subordinate to a rule of right and wrong, and always responsible to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the rightful exercise of that sovereign, constituent, and dissolvent power. This was the platform upon which the Constitution of the United States had been erected. Its virtues, its republican character, consisted in its conformity to the principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
It can then be ascertained that the U.S. Constitution is rooted in Biblical principles. The Florida Constitution, echoing our founding documents, is also rooted on Biblical principles. Because the proposition of invoking a convention of states is contained within our founding documents, it is thus founded on these same principles.
Many Floridians understand our founding principles and cherish our nation's Judeo-Christian roots. In fact, the Florida Governor's office encourages faith-based alliances in serving the community. This is the purpose of Florida's Faith-Based and Community-Based Advisory Council (FBCB).
America needs to return to its foundational principles. Many who support Convention of States (COS) acknowledge this fact, from Mark Meckler, to Rick Green, David Barton, and many others. This is also part of the reason for COS promoting their own Prayer Warrior Team.
Our God-given natural rights continue to be infringed upon and the best way to stop this is to force government to narrow its scope. This is the goal of an Article V Convention of States. Our mission to grow an army of grassroots activists is in support of this goal.
If you have not already done so, please sign the petition below. This petition is then forwarded to your State Representative and State Senator. It lets them know you support Florida’s participation in a Convention of States to propose amendments that limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.
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