The 5000 Year Leap
Principles of Freedom 101
Join Al and Juleen Jackson as they present this powerful and much-anticipated 12-week class designed for families to learn in a simple understandable way the Founder’s ingenious success formula that made America the greatest nation on the earth.
You’ll discover the 28 principles of liberty set forth by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution that will help you speak with greater authority and strength in defending and perpetuating freedom to help heal our homes, communities and nation.
We encourage husbands, wives, grandparents and teenagers to watch these presentations, to learn about all of our Principles of Freedom.
Resources – Part 1 & Intro
Part 1 & Intro
Part 1 – Intro: and The Founders Monumental task.
Structuring a Government with all the power in the people.
Resources – Principles 1 & 2
Principles 1 & 2
Principle 1: The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Peoples Law.
Principle 2: A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
Resources – Principles 3 & 4
Principles 3 & 4
Principle 3: The most promising method of securing a virus and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders.
Principle 4: Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.
Resources – Principles 5, 6 & 7
Principles 5, 6 & 7
Principle 5: All things are created by God, therefore upon Him all mankind are equally dependent and to Him they are equally responsible.
Principle 6: All men are created equal
Principle 7: The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
Resources – Principles 8, 9 & 10
The 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen
Student Manual (Physical Edition)
Student Manual (Digital Download)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke)
Commentaries on the Laws of England (William Blackstone)
Book 1 – The Rights of Persons
Tuttle Twins Learn About the Law
Principles 8, 9 & 10
Principle 8: Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
Principle 9: To protect man’s rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
Principle 10: The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
Resources – Principles 11, 12 & 13
Principles 11, 12 & 13
Principle 11: The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
Principle 12: The United States of America shall be a republic.
Principle 13: A constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
Resources – Principles 14 & 15
Principles 14 & 15
Principle 14: Life and liberty are sure only so long as the right to property is secure.
Principle 15: The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
Resources – Principles 16, 17 & 18
Principles 16, 17 & 18
Principle 16: The government should be separated into three branches – legislative, executive and judicial.
Principle 17: A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
Principle 18: The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of the government are set forth in a written constitution
Resources – Principles 19, 20 & 21
Principles 19, 20 & 21
Principle 19: Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government all others being retained in the people.
Principle 20: Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate accord to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.
Principle 21: Strong local self-got is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
Resources – Principles 22, 23 & 24
Principles 22, 23 & 24
Principle 22: A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
Principle 23: A free society cannot survive as a republic without broad program of general education.
Principle 24: A free people cannot survive unless they stay strong.
Resources – Principles 25 & 26
Principles 25 & 26
Principle 25: Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all Nations – entangling alliances with none.
Principle 26: The core unit that determine the strength of any society is the family; therefore the government should foster and protect its integrity.
Resources – Principles 27 & 28
Principles 27 & 28
Principle 27: The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as subjugation by conquest.
Principle 28: The United States has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.
Listen to
The 5000 Year Leap
12 Presentations
Fall/Winter 2023-24
Additional Presentations Available Weekly
Each Presentation’s video links and their resources will become live after each lesson has taken place.