What is American Law?

   “A nation ceases to be republican only when the will of the majority ceases to be the law.”   - Thomas Jefferson

   Tragically, many in America have no knowledge of what law Jefferson is referring to. Are they Republican laws, Democrat laws, Fascist, Antifa, Black, White, Socialist, the Supreme Court’s, or Trump’s Laws?

   Thankfully, our Founding Fathers codified the principles of our Creator God as the standard with regard to American Law and Government. Under God’s authority, laws are designed to keep our rights secure, which in turn keeps us free. 

   Recall that in the struggle for American liberty our founders were all united by the principles ratified in the Declaration of Independence: 

   “When in the course of Human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE’S GOD entitle them…” (emphasis added).

   This phrase, “The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” was a well-known legal phrase during the Founding era. The Laws of Nature were defined by Webster’s 1828 Dictionary as: 

   “A rule of conduct arising ...

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