“If ‘Thou shall not covet,’ and ‘Thou shall not steal,’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be made civilized or made free.”
John Adams (Founding Father/ Second President of the United States)
“Attended public service at the Capitol where Mr. Ratoon, an Episcopalian clergy man from Baltimore, preached a sermon.”
“Religious service is usually performed on Sundays at the Treasury office and at the Capitol. I went forenoon and afternoon to the Treasury.”
In the first week of December 1800, Congress decided that the Capitol building would serve as a church building.
You can research this by looking in the Annals of Congress (December 1800), these are the records kept by Congress of all the proceedings going on in Congress.
“The great vital and conservative element in our system [the thing holds our system together] is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and the divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion.”
Noah Webster (“Father of American Scholarship and Education”)
“The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is the source of it’s authority. In a democracy whatever the people desire becomes policy, if the majority of people decide that murder is no longer a crime, in a democracy murder will no longer be a crime. However, not so in our republic, in our republic murder will always be a crime, for murder is always a crime in the Word of God.”
David Barton (Christian Historian)
U.S. CONSTITUTION
Article 4, Section 4
requires that “each state maintain a republican form of government….”
“Remember, democracy never last long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams (Founding Father/ Second President of the United States)
“A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”
Benjamin Rush (Founding Father/ Declaration of Independence)
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”
Fisher Ames (Founding Father/Congressman)
“Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mohamed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles. But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is that of the New Testament.”
Benjamin Rush (Founding Father/Declaration of Independence)