Upon discovering a crucial error in the book Heritage Studies by Eileen Berry, I contacted the publisher BJU Press in order to report it. I informed the publisher that the author incorrectly refers to the offices of government in Washington, D.C., as representing the “national government.” I advised that this term is incorrect, as the Founding Fathers of the United States described the form of government primarily as the “general government” or, otherwise, as the “federal government” or “central government.” I stressed that this is not merely a matter of semantics but a critically important distinction, as it represents the critical attitudes and apprehensions at the time of America’s founding, as well as the intentional preservation of sovereignty among each of the several states in the Union — states recognized as independent at the signing of the Treaty of Paris, states which affirmed their sovereignty in their very ratification of the Constitution, and states whose sov...