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PHILIP J. SHERMAN
STATESMAN
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Unfornately 2008 is not the year that I get to start helping the people. The people have chosen to not make their government any better than it is. They have said that we don't need any help, nor do we want any from anybody. Stanley Cox 1234 or so Pettis County Votes Philip J. Sherman 369 or so Pettis County Votes Ten Top Reasons
Why YOU Should Vote for Philip J. Sherman 10. A Vote For the Future
A Youthful and Serious Approach
9. Problem solver, a Telephone Call or E-mail Away
philipjsherman@gmail.com 660-287-5717
8. Always Voting for the issues that Matter to District 118
Roads, schools, and family 6. Working Hard for You
When Elected I will Always by Working Hard for You as a Representative 5. An On-Going Communicator
Ready and willing to take on the issues that matter to Our District 4. The kind of Candidate that you would have coffee with
And still get issues taken care of
3. Lifetime Member of Our Community
2. Keeping You Well Informed on the Issues
Protecting the Public from unneeded Legislation, Laws, and Regulations 1. I Promise to Represent All of the Citizens of District 118 and not just a Select Few All opinions deserved to be heard!
Philip J. Sherman will Always be Lending a Special Hand to the Children, the Handicapped, and the Eldery who have a Hard Time having their Voices Heard.
As we look to the future, we see great needs in our nation. We live in the greatest nation on earth, but there are gaps in our country—gaps of immorality, gaps of poverty, gaps of disrespect for the faith and values on which our country was founded. The only way to fill these gaps is through prayer.
Government and Religion do the two belong together.
This is the Great Debate that can be heard in more and more Churches Today.
James Wilson, a Founding Father, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, the Original U.S. Supreme Court Justice and author of the first commentary on the Constitution believed and said that it did. He said, "Indeed reglion and law are twin sisters". "These two sides run into each other." Who better than him to know the actual intent that our founding fathers had for our Constitution.
The Ten Commandments are repeatly coming up on the Evening News all the across the Country.
But unfortunately few know that the 10 Commandments first appeared in our system of government when the Commonwealth of Virginia included it in their Virginia Code in 1610-1611.
Another fact is that 12 of the 13 colonies included the 10 Commandments in their laws and regulations.
These and other other issues are surfacing all across this Great Country of ours.
However Romans 13:1 says, "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."
This means that if the Government has any authority whatsoever, it has to come from God as there is no other source of authority.
Therefore Government and Religion are Intertwined together. 7. Always listening to the Voters of District 118!
Ready to listen to your thoughts, ideas, and opinions
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Welcome to the Website of Philip J. Sherman
Go Ahead, have a look around and see what you find.
“There is nothing wrong with signing legislation at a Christian school. Church services themselves were held in the U.S. Capitol for members of Congress and the public at the dawn of our Republic.” – Tony Perkins
We must remain active participants and “never tire of doing what is right.”(2 Thess. 3:13)
Go to the Government page
to learn about the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Glover Roberts
and what both sides have to say about him.
Go to the Foundations Page
to see Future Plans.
Go to the Schedule of Events
to see what I'm doing.
Here are some Letters to the Editor that I have written.
Dear Mr. Editor
During this time of peace in the United States we need to remember our military forces, those serving abroad and those serving at their military posts or armory, whatever the case may be. If our military would not be willing to go overseas to fight terrorists or other enemies of freedom, our country would be just like every other country in the world and we would have a war here at home every once in a while.
I personally know this as I am a member of the Missouri Army National Guard and have myself been deployed during operation Enduring Freedom, which has gone on during our current war for the freedom of Iraq. I was deployed to become an MP or Military policeman so that I could take the state side or garrison position of an active duty MP. This would then free this soldier and unit up, so that they could go patrol Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you don’t vote then why should our men and women fight for our freedoms at all? I’d also like to mention that I’m the young man running for State Representative in District 118, (Sedalia’s District). To learn more about me please go to my website www.philipjsherman.org. One last thing that I would like to mention to the Sedalia Democrat is that it is not okay to have a couple of women laying around in their lingerie on the front cover of the TV guide or any where else in the newspaper either.
Dear: Editor
I wish everyone in this country had great intentions just like our founding fathers did.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1963, wanted to find out what percent of the population believed in God when it was deciding whether prayer, of a non-denominational type was okay in our public schools. It found that 97% of the country believed in God in some way and that only 3 percent did not believe in God at all. The 22 word prayer that they were ruling on said the word, God, once. No other strong vocabulary was used. Eight years later it was called a “to whom it may concern” prayer when the same court revisited the same prayer in a different. It was a bland prayer, yet unfortunately to this country’s upheaval as a society since, it then sided with the 3 percent, saying that this prayer could not be allowed. Never before had 3 percent been a majority. It is quite clear when one looks at the facts that our U.S. Supreme Court at the time either did not know their history or they chose to ignore the truth. Consider these facts of early America.
When Thomas Jefferson was our nation’s 3rd President, (he is considered to be the least religious of our founding fathers), he went to church every Sunday at the U.S. Capitol Building. He decided he could get better worship music there since he was the President, so he went and ordered the U.S. Marine Corp. band to play there every Sunday morning for the worship service. Later, he decided to start a church on his side of Washington D.C., since the capitol building was a few miles from the White House, so he started a church in the War building and one in the Treasury building.
It is clear that not even Thomas Jefferson would have wanted our country to get God out of our public buildings.
Benjamin Rush, who was another famous founding father, got the idea of a public education system started in 1791, because, “some might not know the gospel”. Talking about the gospel of Christ.
James Wilson, original U.S. Supreme Court justice and signer of the Constitution said, “religion and law are twin sisters”. Surely he was qualified to know the full intent of the Constitution. For more information on this on this very important subject please check out, www.wallbuilders.org or www.philipjsherman.org
Respectfully, Philip J. Sherman
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A Democracy or Republic?
Written November 2004
In today's society there are many popular issues regarding our government and possible changes to it. One example of this would be many people's desire to abolish the Electoral College. Is it not important that the people understand our government and its design before making such decisions? The Declaration of Independence says that it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" (Declaration of Independence, 1776). Though it may sound like a form of permission to make any and all changes the people wish, the Declaration goes on to say that "[p]rudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes" (Declaration of Independence, 1776).
Would not the abolition of a government in exchange for a worse one or the attempt to mold the present system into something it is not lead to disaster for its people? Is it not therefore important that the people understand their government?
In order to understand what form of government the United States actually is, the definition of each possibility needs to be fully understood. Following the forming of our nation's government, Noah Webster wrote his American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828. This dictionary gives an insight into the thinking of the early 19th century and what the Founding Father's meant when they used the terms 'democracy' and 'republic'. According to this dictionary a democracy is "[g]overnment by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. Such was the government of Athens." To look at this definition one might call the United States of America a democracy, but Noah Webster's definition of a republic sheds a bit more light on the issue. "A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people...it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person. Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics".
These concepts were understood by James Madison, who wrote of the "two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic" (Lewis 271). He recognized the similarities between the two, but also saw the differences. "The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than the latter" (Lewis 273).
This is not to say that the term 'democracy' was never used, it can be found quite easily in historical texts. The Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the new nation and the courses its government could take. The results were summed up by Benjamin Franklin when he said they had given the people "a republic, if you can keep it" (qtd. in McManus).
Perhaps the best explanation comes from another of James Madison's writings:
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible (Lewis 308).
James Madison and Benjamin Franklin were not the only ones who understood the reasoning behind a Republic. John Marshall, the original chief justice of the Supreme Court (1801-1835), said "[b]etween a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos." (qtd. in McManus) John Adams urged for people to remember "democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." (qtd. in Barton 335) Gouverneur Morris referred to democracy as "savage and wild" (qtd. in Barton 335), and John Quincy Adams said that it is "the most unstable, fluctuating, and short-lived" (qtd. in Barton 335). The feeling of the Founding Fathers against democracy was addressed by John Adams when he said:
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few (qtd. in Barton 338).
In the Constitution, it says that the "United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government" (US Const., art.4, sec.4). Yet if you read the Constitution you will not find even one mention of the term 'democracy' or 'democratic'. Why, if the United States is a democracy, would the Constitution guarantee a republican government and not mention a democracy even once?
Though the term 'democracy' has been used throughout the years by various politicians, there has never been any official document that would give credence to calling the United States such a country. Some may consider the line between 'democracy' and 'republic' to be a thin one, but the documents at the heart of the government and the writings of those who set them in place point to the United States of America being a republic.
In the 20th century politicians began to call the United States a 'democracy', and whether they simply didn't know better or didn't care, the American people have begun to believe that that is truly what this country is. Yet throughout all of this, the ability to prove otherwise remains if anyone cares to do so. Even now the Encyclopaedia Britannica refers to the United States as "a federal republic" ("United States"). There is a reason the Pledge of Allegiance claims allegiance to a republic, a reason that the Constitution guarantees one, and a reason that one can find so many writings by the Founding Fathers outlining the virtues of one. America is, at its heart, a republic.
Works Cited
"United States." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 2004. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Brown Lib., Virginia Western Comm. Coll., Roanoke, VA. 19 Nov. 2004
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McManus, John F. "A Republic, If You Can Keep It." The New American 2 Nov. 2000: 1+.
30 Oct. 2004 .
Lewis, John D., ed. Anti-Federalists versus Federalists. Scranton: Chandler Publishing Company, 1967.
Barton, David. Original Intent. 2nd ed. Aledo: WallBuilder Press, 1997.
"democracy." An American Dictionary of the English Language. 1st ed. 1828.
"republic." An American Dictionary of the English Language. 1st ed. 1828.
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