October's newsletter has an article written by Mike Pence, US representative from Indiana.
The subject is 'THE PRESIDENCY AND THE CONSTITUTION". Please try to get this. It is worth reading if you are confused about just what a President's duties are so I don't have to type the whole thing!
Here's an excerpt:
"America is not a dog, and does not require a "because I said so" jurisprudence; or legislators who knit laws of such insulting complexity that they are heavier than hains; or a president who acts like, speaks like, and is received as a king.
The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler. He does not command us; we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision. It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law, and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others. It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing."
This one newsletter by Pence is an important piece of writing. I hope you will try to get it from Hillsdale.
It is invaluable when you are concerned with the current assaults on our freedom and liberty such as what
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