Founding Issues
Rulers

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

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