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Biblical Basis for the Principles in The 5000 Year Leap 

Several years ago, a young student, Kari Hayes, completed our one-semester course on the 28 Principles of 
Liberty entitled "American Government and Constitution, Part I." Feeling the excitement and truthfulness of these ideas, she wrote, "Armed with a pink highlighter, I began to mark verses in my Bible that correlated with the Principles of Liberty." Kari sent me a copy of her project which she entitled, A Scriptural Index to The 5000 Year Leap. While I was teaching a seminar in Georgia, Kari showed up, eager to learn more. We have developed a warm friendship and she recently married and is now known as Kari Wentworth. 

I am grateful to this young freedom-loving patriot for her untiring work and her love of correct principles. 

The following, which is mostly Kari's work, is an indication of how the Founders' principles, explained in The 5000 Year Leap, indeed have their roots in the Holy Scriptures. 

Principle 1. The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law. 

Leviticus 24:22 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God. 

Deuteronomy 30: 11-14 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 

Psalm 19:7 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 

Principle 2. A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong. 

Leviticus 18:26-28 - Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of 
these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. 

John 8:31-32 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 

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Principle 3. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders. 

Exodus 18:21 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds. rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 

Job 34:30 - That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. 

Principle 4. Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained. 

Genesis 4:8-12 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, 
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother'S blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 

2 Chronicles 7: 14 - If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and 
seek my face, and tum from their wicked ways; then win I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 

2 Corinthians 5: 1 0 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 

Principle 5. All things were created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible. 

Psalms 19: 1 - The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork 

Malachi 2: 11 - Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously 
every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 

Revelations 20: 12 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 

Principle 6. All men are created equal. 

Exodus 30: 12-15 - When thou takest the sum of the children ofIsrael after their number, then shall they 
give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls. 

Leviticus 24:22 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God. 

Numbers 15:15-16 - One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord. One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. 

Deuteronomy 16: 19 _ Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 

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Romans 2: 11 - For there is no respect of persons with God. 

Principle 7. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things. 

Exodus 20: 15 - Thou shalt not steal. 

Exodus 20: 17 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 

Principle 8. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable lights. 

Genesis 9:6 - Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 

Exodus 20: 15 - Thou shalt not steal. 

Leviticus 25: 1 0 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 

Principle 9. To protect man's rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law. 

Exodus 20:1-17 - AND God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought 
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 

2 Titus 3: 16-17 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 

Principle 10. The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people. 

Exodus 24:3 - And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. 

Principle 11. The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical. 

Psalms 133: 1 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 
Philippians 2:2-4 - Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of 
one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 

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Principle 12. The United States of America shall be a republic. 

Exodus 18:21 _ Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, 
hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of 

fifties, and rulers of tens: 

Principle 13. A Constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of 
their rulers. 

Exodus 23:8 - And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the 
righteous. 

Deuteronomy 17: 18-20. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write 
him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, 
and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the 
words of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that 
he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his 
days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. 

Principle 14. Life and liberty are secure only so long as the right of property is secure. 

Genesis 1: 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the 
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every 

living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

Deuteronomy 27: 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, 
Amen. 

Psalms 8:4-8 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For 
thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou 
madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep 
and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever 
passeth through the paths of the seas. 

Principle 15. The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and minimum of 
government regulations. 

Leviticus 25: 1 0 _ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all 
the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and 

ye shall return every man unto his family. 

Leviticus 25:14 - And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye 
shall not oppress one another: 

Deuteronomy 25: 15 - But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou 
have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 

Principle 16. The government should be separated into three branches -legislative, executive, and judicial. 

Isaiah 33:22 - For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. 

Principle 17. - A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power. 

2 Chronicles 26: 16-21 - But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he 
transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to bum incense upon the 
altar of incense. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that 


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were valiant men: And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, 
Uzziah, to bum incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn 
incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD 
God. Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the 
priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside 

the incense altar. And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was 
leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the 
LORD had smitten him. And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several 
[separate] house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was 

over the king's house, judging the people of the land. 

Principle 18. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of 
govemment are set forth in a written constitution. 

Exodus 31: 18 - And be gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of commlming with him upon mount 
Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. 

Deuteronomy 11 :20 - And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of tiline house, and upon thy gates: 

Deuteronomy 27:8 - And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 

Nehemiah 9:38 - And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and om princes, Levites, 
and priests, seal unto it. 

Principle 19. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being 
retained in the people. 

Deuteronomy 17:] 5 - 20 - Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall 
choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, 
which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, 
to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth 
return no more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither 
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his 
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the 
Levites: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear 
the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his heart be not 
lifted up above his brethren, and that he tum not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the 
left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst ofIsrael. 

Principle 20. Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but 
constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority. 

Exodus 23:2 - Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline 
after many to wrest judgment: 

Deuteronomy 27: 19 - Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And 
all the people shall say, Amen. 

Principle 21. Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom. 

Exodus 18:22 - 23 - And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter 
they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they 
shall bear the burden with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be 
able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 

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Principle 22. A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men. 

Leviticus 24:22 _ Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: 
for I am the LORD your God. 

Numbers 15: 15 _ 16 _ One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that 
sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the 
LORD. One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. 

Principle 23. A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education. 

Exodus 18:20 _ And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they 
must walk, and the work that they must do. 

Deuteronomy 6:6 _ 7 _ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou 
shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and 
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 

Proverbs 9:9 _ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will 
increase in learning. 

Isaiah 28: 10 _ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a 

little, and there a little: 

Principle 24. A free people will not survive unless they stay strong. 

Deuteronomy 20:5 _ 8 _ And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath 
built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and 
another man dedicate it. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let 
him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. And what man is 
there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in 
the battle, and another man take her. And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, 
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's 

heart faint as well as his heart. 

Luke 14:31 _ 32 _ Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and 
consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 

Principle 25. "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." 

Exodus 23:32 - Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 

2 Corinthians 6: 14 _ Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath 
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what cOlmnunion hath light with darkness? 

Principle 26. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the 
government should foster and protect its integrity. 

Genesis 2:24 _ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and 
they shall be one flesh. 

Exodus 20: 12 _ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the 
LORD thy God giveth thee. 

Proverbs 20:20 _ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. 

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Matthew 5:27 - 28 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her 
already in his heart. 

Ephesians 6: 1 - 4 - Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; 
(which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on 
the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and 
admonition of the Lord. 

Principle 27. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest. 

Proverbs 22:7 - The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. 

Romans 13:8 - Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the 
law. 

Principle 28. The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human 
race. 

Psalms 33:8 - 12 - Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the 
heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the LORD standeth 
for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the 
people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 

Acts 17:26 - 27 - And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, 
and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek 
the Lord, ifhaply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from everyone of us: 

After reviewing the 28 Principles of Liberty in terms of the Holy Scriptures, we are brought to proclaim with 
the Psalmist: 

Psalms 19:7 - 11- The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, 
making wise the simple. The statutes oftbe LORD are light, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the 
LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the 
LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: 
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of 
them there is great reward. 

Sincerely, 

Earl Taylor, Jr.