-Caveat Lector-
"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody
the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should
be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our
institutions are emphatically Christian." - United States Supreme Court,
1892.
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The Bible and our Constitution
While making certain not to endorse any denomination of religion over
another, the founders of this nation made it emphatically clear that the
principles upon which this Nation was built are based squarely upon the
Bible.
Virtually every one of the 55 writers and signers of the United States
Constitution were members of various Christian denominations: 29 were
Anglicans, 16 to 18 were Calvinists, 2 were Methodists, 2 were Lutherans, 2
were Roman Catholic, 1 lapsed Quaker and sometimes Anglican, and 1 open
deist--Dr. Franklin who attended every kind of Christian worship, called
for public prayer, and contributed to all denominations.
George Mason is called the father of the Bill of Rights, for he insisted
that the first ten amendments be added to the Constitution. The purpose for
such an addition? "The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority
can be superseded by no power on earth," Mason said.
James McHenry was a member of the Continental Congress, a state legislator,
a soldier, and a signer of the Constitution...as well as the president of
the first Bible Society in Baltimore. McHenry stated:
Neither...let it be overlooked, that public utility pleads most forcibly
for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they
threaten, the rewards they promise, the stamp and image of divinity they
bear, which produces a conviction of their truths, can alone secure to
society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of
government, purity, stability, and usefulness.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney also signed the Constitution, and served as a
delegate to the national Constitutional Convention and an author of the
Constitution of South Caroline. Pinckney was a statesman, soldier, planter,
a brigadier general and a candidate for President and Vice-President. Like
the rest of the signers of the Constitution, he too recognized the
Sovereignty of God:
"Blasphemy against the Almighty is denying his being or providence, or
uttering contumelious reproaches on our Saviour Christ. It is punished, at
common law by fine and imprisonment, for Christianity is part of the laws
of the land."
And, for those who fear this sort of Law breeds intolerance or disrespect
for others, Patrick Henry boldly declared:
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that this great nation was founded,
not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been
afforded assylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here.
Likewise, the Constitution of the United States was drafted so as to be in
accordance with the Scriptures, to be the legal foundation of a republican
form of government based on that model which God had ordained for the
children of Israel. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson even suggested that the
national seal be a portrayal of "the children of Israel in the wilderness,
led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." Much of the
Constitution and our American common law and organic law is also derived
from the principles of the Magna Carta, which expressly forbade monarchial
tyranny.
In accordance with the spirit of Liberty which motivated those Righteous
men of Principle so many years ago,
We the members of the U.S. Taxpayers Party gratefully acknowledge the
blessing of the Lord God as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe
and of this Nation...
The U.S. Constitution established a republic under God, rather than a
democracy.
In a republic governed by Constitutional law rooted in Biblical law,all
life, liberty and property are safe because Law rules. - Preamble, USTP
Platform
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This material is authored by and expresses the views of Mich. USTP Web
Coordinator C. R. Mason, and is not implied to be the official views of the
U.S. Taxpayers Party.
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"The rising greatness of our country...is greatly tarnished by the general
prevalence of deism, which, with me, is but another name for vice and
depravity....I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number;
and indeed that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought
gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory (being called a
traitor), because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than
politics....Being a Christian...is a character which I prize far above all
this world has or can boast."
- Patrick Henry (from The Life of Patrick Henry of Virginia by A. G. Arnold
in 1854)
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