Joe Rivest

Husband. Father of 7, now 12 including bonus in-law kids! Follower of Jesus. BYU fan. Common sense conservative.

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@hankrsmith Amen Bro. Smith!!

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@Manhattva 😂

[Dustin Harding ✨ From the Dust Films @dustinharding]

Here’s the trailer I’ve been working on for “the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.”

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

Put the Tabernacle Choir and West Point’s rendition of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” into your July 4th playlist rotation today 🇺🇸🎶

[Hank Smith @hankrsmith]

“Here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before”

- Ronald Reagan

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Happy 250th, America.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

250. America. @USMC

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Wow, really Amazon?

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Great interview by Glen Beck. Is The UK On The Verge of Civil War?! It's Closer Than You Think... https://t.co/BHKtVRIYCi via @YouTube

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Great post about BYU and Provo. Don’t let the tag line fool you. BYU Revealed: They ARE NOT Telling You the TRUTH About BYU Football & Pr... https://t.co/hQRf2YlAsB via @YouTube

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@Primary_Pianist For real! 🤣

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Wow!

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Great video by Jacob @ThoughtfulSaint Why People Leave The Church - Part 2: The REAL Solution https://t.co/RqwvARDsEy via @YouTube

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

Amazing analysis!
Americans Are About to Get a Lot Richer https://t.co/0gmqJyMkij via @YouTube

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@jonathanplumb So AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing! 100% truth!

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@ThoughtfulSaint So true!!

[Church News @the_churchnews]

How would you discuss the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution in terms of moral agency? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has created a webpage featuring a discussion guide, video and other resources for a fifth-Sunday meeting on May 31 across the country. The discussion page — found on https://t.co/rWFZ3lNs9p — is titled “Celebrating the Founding of the United States and the U.S. Constitution.”

The lesson focuses on moral agency and how the Constitution and Declaration of Independence support religious liberty. A new video — with President @ChristoffDTodd of the First Presidency and Elder @CookQuentinL of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — provides instruction about the significance of those documents and related events that enabled the Restoration of the Church.

Also available on https://t.co/B1pkIb5smK and the Church News app, Elder @RonaldARasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recently ministered in the Dominican Republic. Speaking to Latter-day Saints at a special conference held at the Eleoncio Mercedes Sports Center in La Romana, Elder Rasband delivered a Christ-centered message of faith and hope. And during his visit, the Apostle also presided at a devotional attended by more than 800 missionaries serving in missions in Santiago and Santo Domingo.

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

@Manhattva It's growing on me...slowly. :) Definitely an amazing vehicle.

[Joe Rivest @jrivest]

For those who appreciate legal discourse, this is amazing!

[Ron Coleman @RonColeman]

Decades as a federal prosecutor... doesn't work for CNN...

@shipwreckedcrew is a guy you listen to

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