Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Bobby Schilling for Congress campaign chartered a bus and took 35 people to experience the day. Each person received a copy of The Constitution of the United States, a Bobby Schilling for Congress T-shirt, bumper sticker and yard sign. Of course The Constitution was the hit of the party! Thank you Heritage Foundation for providing these copies at $.50 ea. (You can stop by headquarters and pick up a copy for yourself). Every one should have at least one copy and read it every day. Just five minutes a day will help all of us understand our liberties and the limitations that were placed on our government. Reading the Declaration of Independence will also help us understand these things. I know that when I read these documents my heart is filled with love and pride for our Country. The people who founded our Country were just normal people. Farmers, educators, inventors, silver smiths, (Paul Revere made spoons) etc… They were people like you and me who loved God, Country, family and neighbor. You can’t read these documents and not realize it, and not realize that they were guided by a power far greater than themselves. They literally put their necks on the line for you and I to live free and have life abundantly (back then there was public hangings and decapitation for treason). In 1775 addressing the assembly about the Stamp Tax, Patrick Henry said “If this be treason than make the most of it!”. I was once told that our founding fathers would be turning in their grave at knowing what our government has become. I think that they would be turning in their grave at seeing that we have let our government get this powerful. They gave us the power and the duty to see to it that our government did not grow to this magnitude. The Declaration of Independence lays it out very clearly and carefully. Do not take these documents lightly they were written for us and many have sacrificed even their very life to ensure that we would have these liberties secured. Remember “No greater love has he, than he who lays down his life for his friends”. Our founding fathers were not thinking of their securities and liberties they were thinking of ours!
Augustana College Republicans, Kevin Jackson author of The Black Lie, and Bobby
Bobby Speaking with the future POTUS Aaron Schock