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 ...
... democratic. Nonetheless, at the very outset of our history, the 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 ...
... democratic government. And the practice of religious liberty naturally suggests (and, to a degree, mandates) its correlate, civil liberty. If the Puritans failed to make these connections themselves, their primary commitments to ...
... 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 ...
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 | |