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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)
- John Jay
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"[It is] the duty of all wise, free, and virtuous governments to countenance [commend, endorse] and encourage virtue and religion."
- John Jay: Attorney, Diplomat, Jurist; member of the Continental Congress where he was President of Congress; helped write the New York State constitution; Chief Justice of New York Supreme Court; co-authored, along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the Federalist Papers - which were instrumental in securing the ratification of the federal Constitution; appointed first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Washington; Governor of New York; Vice-President and then President of the American Bible Society; member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 184: originally quoted from The Speeches of the Different Governors to the Legislature of the State of New York, Commencing with Those of George Clinton and Continued Down to the Present Time (Albany: J.B. Van Steenbergh, 1825), 66, John Jay, November 4 1800.
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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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