Founding Issues
Christians

  1. "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty - as well as the privilege and interest - of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"

    - United States Founding Father, Co-Author Federalist Papers, Original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, "The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 1794-1826, Henry P. Johnson, editor, Vol. IV, p. 393, October 12, 1816

  2. "Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned. ... Let us in the first place ... humbly and penitently implore the aid of the Almighty God whom we profess to serve - let us earnestly call and beseech him for Chirst's sake to preside in our councils."

    - United States Founding Father, President Continental Congress, Elias Boudinot, Elias Boudinot LL.D., "The Life and Public Services, and letters of Elias Boudinot, LL.D., President of the Continental Congress", J.J. Boudinot, ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1896), Vol. 1, pp. 18-19

  3. "Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the 4th of July]? Is is not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That is laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?"

    - United States Founding Father, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams, "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence", July 4, 1837, (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), p. 5

  4. "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were ... the general principles of Christianity. ... I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."

    - United States Founding Father, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson", (Washington D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XIII, P. 292-294. In a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813

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