The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic PrimerWhat makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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... Mayflower Compact goes on to say is really quite amazing. A newly free people, after giving lip service to their loyalty to the “dread Sovereign Lord King James,” did something on their own for which no other group in England would have ...
... Mayflower Compact established the notion upon which our nation would be founded: governments formed by compact derive their power from the terms set by the governed. In America, religious covenant and civic compact have a similar ...
... Mayflower Compact. The nation's motto, E pluribus unum, echoes throughout, especially in Winthrop's peroration: “We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own and rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer ...
... Mayflower Compact. Other liberal churches have adapted the Mayflower Compact as their bond of union. In one free translation, the theological letter has been changed so completely as to be almost.
... Mayflower Compact was drawn up wholly without benefit of clergy, the Pilgrims' pastor, John Robinson, having stayed behind in Leiden to tend the majority of his flock. Four years later, when the home church finally did dispatch a ...
Contents
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | |
E Pluribus Unum | |
AMERICAS MISSION | |
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL | |
THE FOUR FREEDOMS | |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | |
CONCLUSION | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |