PRAGERU.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1934: "As an ideal, my preference is for [Indian] self-government either on the American federal plan or on Swiss lines leaving ultimate power through the Initiative, the Referendum, and perhaps the Recall."] ARTICLE: After the 1787 Constitutional Convention, legend says a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government had been created. Franklin responded "...a republic, madam. If you can keep it." A republic? But isn't our country a democracy? Actually, pure democracy frightened the Convention Delegates as a path to mob rule so they rejected it. Instead, they built both democratic and non-democratic features into the Constitution to protect liberty. That's why Wyoming has 2 Senators, the same number as California and every other state, so large population states like California can't overwhelm the needs and interests of small states like Wyoming. "More democratic" doesn't always mean more just. A republic is a brilliant way of diffusing power. Our founders understood ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2003: "[Education] must also stimulate students to consider a variety of perspectives on some of the fundamental questions posed by the human condition: 'What is truth?' 'What is reality?' and 'What are my duties to my fellow man, to my country and *to God?*'"] ARTICLE: The US Supreme Court's June 21, 6-3 ruling shows learning doesn't happen in a moral vacuum, and it's dangerously absurd to insist otherwise. Both the majority and dissenting opinions illuminate a truth about education and religion: the two are closely intertwined. All education is religious, and all religion involves education. Although people think schools have replaced religous values and beliefs with knowledge and skills, they are sorely mistaken. All schools are quite religious, it's just that their religion is secular humanism. They've replaced God with model human beings (world leaders, civil rights activists, scientists, etc.) not to mention, the unrelenting effort to replace the home and church community with the school community. That makes every non-secular school ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "But if freedom of religion deteriorates into freedom from religion, then societies will find themselves lost in a bleak and unpromising landscape with no compass, no roadmap and no sense of ultimate direction." ~~ "A healthy sense of public integrity, in my view, will be difficult to nurture over time without a strong religious underpinning." ~~ "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materilaism, self-indulgent individualism, and unprincipled relativism?"] ARTICLE: The West is facing its deepest crisis and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists' monopoly on education, former U.S. Attorney General, William Barr said at a Chicago conference. He explained self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion. But anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions. "You can't finesse it anymore. You can't pretend what's being taught in schools is compatible with traditional religion, nor can you pretend schools are neutral any more." "The last couple of hundred years [has created a new] worldview that boils questions of morality solely down to an individual's internal feelings." Barr said anti-religion leftists have effectively ...

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