At the time of The American Revolution, every other nation was built on the principle of controlling the people as their first duty. The sovereign and his nobles owned everything, and virtually no one was free to choose the course of their life, where they lived, or even their vocations. Before The American Revolution, there had not been a successful government that was based on freedom first, even though this was a desire of most people. 

     Why had this not worked when most people wanted it? A main reason was that those who sought to...

     You can have an economy without a government, but you cannot have a government without an economy. The economy is more basic than government as it is built on basic human transactions, trading and interchange. This is what binds people together into communities. 

     The majority of all communication today is about some form of trade or business. After family ties, business is the strongest human link. For this reason, understanding the economy is essential to understanding a nation—if that nation’s economy has been allowed to grow organically and has not had Marxism or other forms...

         For the nearly six thousand years of recorded history, wealth was measured in such things as property, livestock, precious metals, precious stones, and later coins issued by governments. In the Middle Ages, bank notes started to be issued as currency. In just the last couple hundred years, an amazing new commodity has grown to become the most valuable of all. That commodity is ideas. 

         Today, an idea can have almost unlimited value. As ideas became so valuable, the opportunity to acquire and grow wealth became available to virtually anyone with initiative. It did not matter how...

         There are a number of biblical prophecies that seem to speak of America. One is Revelation 12:1-18 (some of this passage is omitted for the sake of brevity): 

         A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 

         and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth…  

        And she gave birth to a son, a male child,...

     Jamestown was the first English colony established in America in 1607 in what is present-day Virginia. A little over a decade later, the Plymouth colony was established in 1620, in what is now Massachusetts. They were about 500 miles apart, and there was no known communication between them. Yet, they had a remarkably parallel experience with their initial economic systems. Both began with a communal system in which property was owned by the collective and the harvest of the common garden was shared collectively. 

     In their first winter, each colony suffered massive starvation, with two-thirds...