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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... law, church and state are separate in America, to the signal advantage of both. But by tradition, religion and politics are interdependent, especially at times of crisis. As an ism, secularism suggests a rejection of or hostility to ...
... laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” Noting the contrast between ...
... Laws, 1647 ALTHOUGH THE PURITAN LEADERS OF MASSACHUSETTS WERE UN-sympathetic to such later American principles as religious freedom and freedom of speech, the institutions they established and ideals on which they built these ...
... law of the Massachusetts Bay Colony but, of greater importance, a lightning rod for Williams's campaign to strike all Sunday laws from the books. In mid-1631, Governor Winthrop wrote in his journal that “Mr. Williams had declared his ...
... laws and his arch separatist views. He also ran into trouble with the establishment on account of his outspoken advocacy of Indian rights. Under the charter of the royal patent, the Massachusetts Bay Colony could seize Native American ...
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 | |