Quotes and Realities
- 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)
- Joseph Story
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"One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law.... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations."
- Joseph Story: Attorney; Jurist, Educator; U.S. Representative, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by President James Madison, helped revive Harvard School of Law as the first Dane Professor of Law, along with Chancellor James Kent is known as "Father of American Jurisprudence."
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 170: originally quoted from Story, Joseph, Life and Letters of Joseph Story, edited by Story, William W. (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851), Vol. II, 8.
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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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