Morality: The Backbone of a Society

National Morality. Com ^ | 05-15-2005 | Wayne D. Leeper

[tenn2005]

The standard of morality in any nation is and must be determined by the citizens of the nation. The purpose of government is to legislate the standard of morality deemed appropriate by the people of the society in question.

[MamaTexan]

Very good post!

The “Laws of Creation” are those laws set forth by God which apply to all mankind and are intended to govern the relationship between individuals.
The “Laws of Redemption,” on the other hand, are those laws set forth by God which concern an individuals personal relationship with God.

Noah Webster, the man personally responsible for Art. I, Sec. 8, ¶ 8, of the U. S. Constitution, explained two centuries ago:
The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

The Laws of Redemption are Commandments 1 to 5

The Laws of Creation are Commandments 6 to 10

This is what is known as Natural Law, or the law of Nature and nature's God of the Declaration of Independence.

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To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774

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If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.
John Adams, Rights of the Colonists, 1772

[tenn2005]

Thank you