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- God's Word and Character Brings Good Government
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"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people."
- Proverbs 14:34 (NIV)
- James McHenry
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"[T]he Holy Scriptures.... can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments [defenses] around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments [protections]. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses."
- James McHenry: Soldier captured and exchanged in Revolution, Military Secretary to General George Washington, member of Continental Congress, delegate to Constitutional Convention where he signed the federal Constitution, member of the State convention to ratify the federal Constitution, secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams, a founder and President of the Baltimore Bible Society.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 328: originally quoted from Steiner, Bernard C., One Hundred and Ten Years of Bible Society Work in Maryland, 1810-1920 (Baltimore: Maryland Bible Society, 1921), 14.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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