Mark Boonstra has been on the cutting edge to witness the social and moral decline of America. After practicing private law for nearly three decades, he has sat on Michigan’s 3rd District Court of Appeals for the past decade. His adherence to the letter of the law and his disdain for judicial activism has drawn the ire of the Left. His appreciation for textualism, commonly referred to as constitutional originalism, has led him to place his needle within the social fabric of American society in hopes of sewing back some of its tears.
Boonstra diligently spent eight years working on his “In Their Own Words” multi-volume project, which presents the beliefs and ideas from all 118 signers of America’s three foundational documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. His third and final volume was released late last year. It was indeed a massive undertaking, but according to Boonstra, the work was more than worth it if it can help right the ship of state back on course toward what the Founding Fathers had intended for the republic….