Boy Scouts and the Founding Fathers

There is a similarity between the boy scout movement, and the early American movement for a Constitutional Republic. Both have a system of values, and both recognize a Creator that gives rights. Both recognize the importance of rule by law, not rule by persons. Both believe strongly in liberty, which really drove the early Americans.

We can learn much from the wisdom of America’s founders, who delivered a Republic under God, with security for liberty, so that Americans could prosper individually, and as a nation. It worked. Liberty lived well during the first 100 plus years of the American Republic, with a few challenges along the way. I find the the necessary values and laws for a successful republic, are found in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, and in the United States Constitution. The first defines who “we the people” are, and what we are entitled too. It discusses the threats to liberty. The second document is a a guide to limiting the power and growth of government, and a security to liberty.

Having been in the Boy Scout movement, I was surrounded by good, liberty loving individuals, and found my way along the path of good citizenship: love of country, love of liberty, love of the Constitutional system of government which tell what government can do, and if government does what is not in the Constitution, government is exceeding its authority, and violating the liberty of “we the people.”

I wake up each day thinking a little about our founding fathers, the words of wisdom they left, as well as the boy scout law, the boy scout oath. I will continue to honor the remarkable man, who made scouting possible. What a wise man. We can learn a lot from those who walked and thought before us. Their values should be our values. They valued liberty.