EndersUSA

Website of Mike & Sandy Enders

Instructor of Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Democracy Trail

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Welcome to our EndersUSA online office in cyberspace.  We are online course instructors in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Housatonic and Middlesex Community Colleges in Connecticut.  We also do the same at Central Texas College, which services our US troops through GoArmy Ed and other military installations and learning centers worldwide.  This personal site houses all course syllabi as well as information on research writing.  At the Enders Institute link, you can find course and classroom info, as well as our academic credentials.  The Writing Lab maintains information on academic integrity and research writing; as well as online education, safety and etiquette issues.  There are think tank and research study links in the social sciences, which are maintained at the Social Sciences page.  You can find info on Supreme Court decisions at the Justice Trail, legislation and treaty info at the Democracy Trail, and historical documents, which may pertain to courses in American history and government, posted under the Freedom Trail. 

On a personal  note, we reside on the South-Central Connecticut shoreline overlooking Long Island Sound.  Mike has been a Federal  attorney in the Social Security Administration for 38 years and has recently retired from the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review.  He has two grown children, Robert and Rebecca,  who reside in Indiana, and we both have a five year old son, Adam Jefferson, whom we adopted at birth from Guatemala in Central America.  Thank you for visiting and I hope you make use of my site for your course and bookmark it for future reference!

Mike and Sandy Enders

Mike was recently selected as the Person of the Week by the East Haven Courier, please see the article, For the Red, White, and Blue, by Jason J. Marchi.

Animated audio on the Philosophy of Liberty

by the International Society for Individual Liberty

On Economics:

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

-Adam Smith-

Lecture in 1755

On Politics:

"With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens -- a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

-Thomas Jefferson-

First Inaugural Address

March 4^th 1801

On Social Justice:

"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."

"Was not Jesus an extremist for love -- "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice -- "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ -- "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist -- "Here I stand; I can do none other so help me God." Was not John Bunyan an extremist -- "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist -- "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist -- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment."

-Martin Luther King Jr.-

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

April 1963

last update 08.12.09 site managed by Sandy Enders