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This is Chris Arns and your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Tuesday on this fifth

day of June 2018, and I'm so delighted to have on the

program for the very first time ever on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio Tom

Newillis, and you will probably be correcting me on the pronunciation of that, I forgot to ask you that before we went on the

air, and he is president and CEO of NCDCS, Incorporated,

with over 30 years in business and organizational analysis, strategic planning, financial

and organizational management, having delivered business and technical studies, and having made presentations at

industry conferences in the United States and Europe.

He's a member of the technical advisory boards for emerging companies, as well as the

Fortune 500.

He's an internationally published writer, a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and

the World Intellectual Property Organization, whose studies include the U .S. Constitution, the

Federalist and Anti -Federalist Papers, Joseph Stories, Commentaries, Blackstone,

Locke, de Kockwill, Madison's Notes, and the various states

ratifying conventions, as well as original source writings of Samuel Adams and his

contemporaries, the Reformation, with an emphasis on the Scottish Reformation, Lex Rex, the Puritans,

and Covenant, the First Great Awakening, and the sermons the founders heard preached.

He's a chair of constitutional economics at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Constitutional

Studies.

He's a board member for We the People Washington.

He's the author of Not All Conservatives Are Constitutionalists, with three other books in the

works, and he is also a board member at Samuel Adams Center for Political

Science, and a blogger at SamuelAdamsReturns .net.

Today we are discussing the tale of two constitutions, from Covenant to the present

Constitution.

And I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, we're out of time already.

It's my honor and privilege to welcome for the very

first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron, Tom Newillis.

And if you could, Tom, correct me if I'm mispronouncing your name.

Newillis.

So the W like a V.

Newillis.

Got it.

Great.

Almost sounds Russian, is it?

Lithuanian.

Oh, okay.

And I'm going to give our listeners our email address right away.

It's chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

If you have any questions for Tom, that's C -H -R -I -S -A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail

.com.

Please give us your first name at least, your city and state, and your country of residence if you live outside of the USA.

Well, before we get into some of your testimony, as I typically do when we

have a first -time guest on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, we have our guests give a

summary of what kind of religious upbringing they had, if any, and how our sovereign lord

got a hold of them and used providence in their lives to draw them closer to him and

ultimately to salvation.

But before we do that, why don't you tell us about the Samuel Adams Center for Political Science.

Great, and tell our listeners about your blog at samueladamsreturns .net.

Samuel

Adams

Returns,

again, that

foundation,

and it

references

principles.

Well, we'll get back to Samuel Adams in a moment, but now let's hear something about

your testimony on your religious upbringing, if any, and how our lord got a hold of you and

saved you.

Church, altar boy.

If you

were at that

school,

you'd be in

that

high school a

little bit.

And during that period of time, as we were finishing off,

that

is

some

of my

story.

It

makes a

lot of sense.

Another couple of

years went on,

trying to

make a determination of what was

going on, and these

guys came

up and shared

the

four

spiritual laws, and

that made a different choice.

Yeah, some of the earlier part of your testimony was nearly identical to my own,

with the exception of your military experience.

And also, my private school or parochial school experience with the Catholic Church

was only from first through eighth grade.

And then I left parochial school and went to the local public school, because that's where

most of my friends were.

And eventually, I left Catholic Church, became a

really horrible alcoholic, scandalous alcoholic, and thankfully the

Lord saved me eventually, and I am now a Reformed Baptist.

Now, where are you, theologically, in our current day,

in regard to what church you're a member of and so on?

Talk

about

myself.

More to

you.

Well, I'm going to throw a guess out here.

Parkside Church in Cleveland?

Okay.

Well, there's no reason to keep that a secret.

I mean, I happen to love Alistair Begg.

In fact, I just had a couple of conversations with Alistair at the Banner of Truth

conference, where he was one of the speakers here in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

Yeah, I saw that advertised.

So I'm looking forward to having him back on the program.

It's been a long time.

And he encouraged me to set up another interview with him, so that's what I'm going to do, God willing, in the very

near future.

So when in your life did you develop this fascination and

interest in politics, and particularly in Samuel Adams?

Well, the interest in politics formulated while I was still taking a look

at a lot

of countries.

So that got me

locally.

I'm sure that's how 90 % of Americans think of him.

So you actually do like a play, then?

You actually portray him?

Well, not a play.

Samuel

Adams

for years.

Huh, that is interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

It's crazy, you know?

Yeah, I have orchestrated probably 30 or more live

public theological debates and I used to have a microphone set up

where during the question and answer session at the end, we would have people get in the line and ask

questions.

But I started to take questions from the audience by written

down on index card instead because the questioners typically would get up and

preach sermons rather than ask any questions.

So I don't know how your experience is letting the audience get a hold of a microphone.

At your character, at

your

sovereign

over.

Well, before we get into who Sam Adams was, I think it would be

helpful for our listeners to get some kind of an idea of where you

stand politically.

It's not easy to really know where a person stands these days

politically just by virtue of what label they wear.

For instance, as you know, for somebody to call themselves a Republican or a

conservative, that can mean actually very little as far as finding out what they

actually believe and stand for because you do have a wide spectrum of ideologies

expressed by people who wear those labels.

You have those that would be far closer to libertarians on one end and you

have those that are war hawks on the other end and some who are

barely distinguishable from Democrats or liberals.

So if you could let our listeners know if in some way, shape or form where you stand politically and then we can

move on with our discussion on Samuel Adams specifically.

And we will during the course of this interview find out more about what that is.

Yeah, that threw you a little bit there.

I had a feeling it wasn't going to be easy.

As we proceed.

Yes, well, one thing that may also help a little bit is for you to get

into a little bit of a description of a book that we are not focusing on today, but perhaps we can have you back to discuss.

Not all conservatives are constitutionalists.

The ever -changing definitions.

What are you?

An anthology.

Right?

Yes, yes.

Yes, that would that

would.

I would sit in for this guy.

And he says, oh, you'll pick up this again.

And

being

of

words.

Once again, I did a seminar lecture before I wrote the book.

I put that in writing.

Just a little 50 page.

Yeah, you said you said you use the key phrase there.

A constitutional republic.

Because I'm sure you are aware that if you were to do

question and answer on the street, walking around just in a

crowded area of a bustling city or perhaps a an active

suburb near a shopping mall or something, and you were to ask people what kind of government

the United States has, they would say, typically, I am sure we are a

democracy.

But that's not true, is it?

Yeah.

And I'm going to have you go through those terms after we get into a more in -depth

exploration of Samuel Adams.

And we're going to begin doing that right after our first station break.

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If you just tuned in to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, our guest today for the full two hours, with 90 minutes to go, is

Tom Nuvolos, and we are discussing the tale of two constitutions from covenant to the

present constitution.

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Well, Samuel Adams is obviously a primary figure in your heart and

mind and work.

You are, as I mentioned earlier, a board member at the Samuel Adams Center for Political Science and a blogger

at samueladamsreturns .net.

Tell us about this figure, Sam Adams.

Tell us something even about his own life growing up and how he came to be the man

that is considered one of the greatest heroes of American history.

Sam Adams

simply

was

raised

and

was by

studied

for

the ministry

looking at what

happened when

he started.

Did he ever give a reason why he didn't like French at all?

It was just, it was just what, no, I couldn't find any reason, but it was.

Maybe he didn't like the French?

Only

when they,

that

was

helpful

to the

Americans

on

that

position.

Wow.

Yeah, and his contemporaries, although they might be considered, not all of

them, but perhaps the majority of them, God -fearing men to one level or another,

it sounds like his faith was genuine and may have stood out.

Not that he was, of course, the only truly regenerate person amongst his peers, but,

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mixture of ideologies.

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Yeah, I heard that moniker applied to Jonathan Edwards as well the last period.

Yes.

And a friend of mine that I interview quite often,

who is a Puritan scholar, he doesn't like to categorize any American descendants of the

Puritans as Puritans.

He restricts that to those that were in England, but that's another time, another story for another time.

How should we...

These guys that camp around the boat, you know, you got to look at it that way.

So, tell us what we should most remember accurately about

Samuel Adams, and as you said before, most people will immediately think of a

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He

remembered

our

nation,

and

that

meant

all

generations.

Yeah, and unfortunately, this nation seems to have really

abandoned the principles that Adams cherished,

and it is as if he was a prophet speaking there.

But if you could now begin to articulate some of the

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If you could go through in layman's terms as much as possible, how those things

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Couldn't it also lead to mob rule, which is a dangerous concept?

That's why the phrase used to be these United States of America, not the United States of

America.

Form

of

government,

if

you

will.

Independent

republic,

the

primary

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So the words and labels were confusing even back then.

Correct.

Oh yeah, exactly.

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gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com.

By the way, Tom, am I still remaining fairly close to the pronunciation of your name?

No, you're spot on.

Oh great, great, thank you.

All right, but well before the break, as you may remember, Bruce, Pastor Bruce in Center

Reach, Long Island, New York, who actually pastors a church in Farmingville, New York,

the Word of Truth Church, he asked a question about

the situation with, let's see, I have it right here, is a

state -supported public school guilty of violating the contemporary legal doctrine of separation of

church and state when it teaches naturalistic evolution, thus a de facto form of

atheism, as a fact.

The next 14 hours of your program.

Yes, because

there has

never

been

a proof of

evolution

and it

is

being taught

as a

fact.

In.

Fact, I was taught it as a fact in Catholic parochial school

as a child, probably starting somewhere in the fifth or sixth grade

of elementary school.

I was taught evolution, believe it or not, in a Catholic school as a fact and I was even taught that the story

of Adam and Eve and most of the stories of the Old Testament were fairy tales.

Now I'm not, of course, broad -brushing here that there are many Catholics out there that are

creationists and believe in intelligent design and all that and believe in the literal

interpretation of the Old Testament and, in fact, the entirety of the Bible, but this happens to be, I

think, a very common situation in the Catholic Church today and elsewhere, of course.

But thank you, Bruce, and give us your full mailing address in Center Reach Long Island so you can

receive a free copy of the book we are addressing, From Covenant to the Present

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We have Joey in Clifton, New Jersey, who says, Dear Tom, this question

regards the importance of terminology.

I believe you said that you are an anti -federalist because you mean that

term in its original sense, in which anti -federalists were those like

Samuel Adams who held to the principles of the Articles of Confederation.

But in modern terms, would a person who holds to such beliefs be called a

federalist?

If so, how do you recommend handling the terminology so as not to create misunderstanding?

I hold

to the

point of view

of 87, and

you need to work

through the

get into

your wine

cellar.

So I hold

to that.

I hold to

the

terminology,

but

I use

cold

reference.

Well, thank you, Joey, in Clifton, New Jersey.

Please give us your full mailing address there so that cvbbs .com can ship you out a free

copy of our guest's book, From Covenant to Present Constitution.

Thank you for providing such an excellent question.

We have Charlie in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, who has two

questions.

The first is, Why did the founders set up a three -branch system when

Britain had only two, prime minister instead of elected president?

That's the first question.

The

three

branches

were

looking

at

how

over

all

the

judiciary,

one that,

you know,

recall.

Yeah, that was actually Charlie's second question.

Why electoral college instead of popular vote?

And some people who are conservatives and Christians who think that it should be

an election by popular vote, they don't even realize how much to the advantage.

That the

liberals

have

with

that.

And,

well,

thank

you,

Charlie.

You have

won.

A free copy of the book as well, From Covenant to the Present Constitution.

Since you are in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then we will have you just go by

cvbbs .com, Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service on North Hanover Street in Carlisle, and pick

up the book to spare them the expense of shipping that out to you.

So just when you when you get there, just ask for the book,

From Covenant to the Present Constitution Workbook, by Tom Nuvolos,

and say that you won it on Iron Trap and Zion Radio, and it will be waiting there for you.

We have Tyler in Mastic Beach, Long Island, New York, who says, Was it true

that the Bible was a public education textbook in the early 13

colonies?

History

and the Constitution

just became

like

almost

every...

Well, thank you so much, Tyler, in Mastic Beach, Long Island, New York.

Make sure we have your full mailing address so that cvbbs .com can mail you out a copy

of From Covenant to the Present Constitution Workbook by our guest Tom Nuvolos.

And thank you for contributing an excellent question to the program.

I'm going to read you another question from a listener before we go to our final break, and you

could answer it when we return from the final break.

And this is from RJ in White Plains, New York.

And RJ says,.

Do not many conservatives and even Christians make the enormous

mistake of wanting our government to have too much power over things

that suit them and their ideology, not realizing that when the

government changes hands and those from the other side of the aisle in the future take

control, it will come back to bite us in the back.

And we'll have you answer that when we return from our final break.

And this is a much briefer break than the last one.

If you'd like to join us on the air with a question of your own, do so now or forever hold your peace because we're rapidly running out of time.

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Before the break, we had RJ in White Plains basically saying that there are conservatives

who wrongly think when they have been very pleased with the results of an election

that they want the government here in the United States to have a lot of power, especially when

it comes to enforcing things involved in morality and perhaps other things.

And then when four or eight years later, when a liberal might ascend into the

White House and other places of government, they are shocked

when the government has all this power and yet now it is invading into their own personal lives.

So what can you say about what our.

Listener

in

White Plains,

New York

had

to say?

I think

RJ is

spot

on, but

yet then

the anti

-federal

ward

over us.

Well

any people group

create

their

answers

in

the

wrong

way.

Well

thank

you

RJ.

You have won a free copy of From Covenant to the Present Constitution Workbook by our guest.

Please make sure that we have your full mailing address so cvbbs .com can ship that out to you in White Plains,

New York.

We have CJ from Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York who says, I would hope that all

true regenerate Christians would agree that

abortion is one of the greatest evils that has plagued humanity.

It is pure and simple infanticide.

It is a holocaust of the unborn.

But having said that, I know that sincerely pro -life Christians do

disagree on whether or not this should be a state's rights issue or a federal government

issue because of the way that they believe this will be more

believably wiped off the map.

What is your guest's opinion on this?

Fellowship.

In fact,

I

remember

I

was

personally

surprised

because

I

initially.

Uh years ago had a negative knee -jerk reaction to the idea of

abortion being a state's rights issue because I think I thought that it lessened the severity

of the crime being committed.

But I found out that murder is a state's is a crime

against the state.

Only uh there are certain circumstances that makes murder not

a state crime but a federal crime.

But murder is for the most part a crime against the state and I was unaware of that.

Understanding

and the

law

and or

that's

what

Jefferson.

Well thank you CJ and Lindenhurst, Long Island.

I believe you're getting the last copy that we have of from covenant to the present constitution

workbook.

So make sure that we have your full mailing address so cvbbs .com can ship it out to you

at no charge to you or to our entrepreneur radio.

We have Susan Margaret in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania who says, I find a

lot of things very attractive and appealing about libertarianism.

I am a devout Christian and I am leaning towards the libertarian

ideology but one thing stands out as being a great concern to me

that I have found amongst libertarians.

I know that they are not monolithic and that they have a variety of thought amongst them but it

seems odd to me that libertarians by and large believe

that borders protecting the United States should be very loose and open which

surprises me because of the fact that I thought that the idea of libertarianism was the

freedoms that that citizens of the United States have, not

foreigners outside of our jurisdiction.

You

know

it's

interesting

that

you

have

this

harsh

opinion

of

libertarianism

and

as

our

listener.

Rightly said they're not monolithic.

I have met some libertarians who sound like they are saying nearly identically what you're

saying and they're very pro -life.

Some of them of course it's a large spectrum.

You have deplorable people who are libertarians who want the government

out of anything that we do.

I even met a libertarian once that although he said he was personally

opposed to child pornography he didn't believe there should be laws against it.

I told him he was insane.

But there are libertarians like my late friend who is now in glory with Christ for

eternity William Norman Grigg.

He was a libertarian and I had a lot of commonality with him in regard to things and he seems to

be echoing a lot of what you or he echoed I should say a lot of what.

You're

saying.

How do you

respond to

what.

What I just said?

I would say

that those time when you.

Look at it.

Oh yeah.

William Norman Grigg the the brother that I just mentioned.

He he called himself both.

He called himself a Christian libertarian and a Christian constitutionalist.

I think that's.

Uh see the same

thing.

There's a

whole mix of

what goes

on with y 'all.

Right.

One of my former pastors.

Who was against libertarianism he said that libertarianism would only work in a

perfect.

World.

Would you would you agree with that sentiment?

Yeah

sure.

What solution would we

see that?

Well

thank

you Susan

Margaret

in

Dauphin

County.

I am sorry as I said we don't have a free.

Book for you but if you are interested in getting your own copy you can go to

samueladamsreturns .net samueladamsreturns .net.

If you could I'd like you now Tom to summarize what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our

listeners.

You have about three minutes.

To do so

regard in

regard to from

covenant to the

present

constitution.

Declaration of independence not

against part but I

take

you through

and then we

have to look at

and then

at the end

we

do about the

communities

at the national level.

And we're out of time brother.

I'm sorry.

All right that's three minutes.

There you go.

And the website is samueladamsreturns .net samueladamsreturns .net.

I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater savior than you are a sinner.

Amen.