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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... democracy more perfect than antiquity had dared to dream of started in full size and panoply from the midst of ancient feudal society.” The Plymouth Colony was far from being a perfect democracy, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony made no ...
... democracy. To cast this point in language that the Pilgrims themselves would have understood, America is founded on the theological conviction that “God's will” and “man's weal” are one and the same. From hard acquaintance with the ...
... democracy,” which represented for him the “meanest and worst of all forms of government.” For Winthrop—who believed humanity to be by nature sinful—the word liberty, as a human rather than a divine attribute, was interchangeable with ...
... democracy to Pennsylvania. But it was the Pilgrims (despite their modest numbers) and the Puritans (not-withstanding the exclusive nature of their theological vision) who contributed the first important chapter in the development of the ...
... democracy and First Amendment rights. To call earlyseventeenth-century New England a theocracy—if by this one means the rule of priests—is misleading. Governance rested in the hands of elected congregants, not those of their ministerial ...
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 | |