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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... liberal and evangelistic choreography throughout the course of the nation's history. In 1833, Massachusetts was the last state in the union to disestablish religion, making Unitarianism—today steadfast in its devotion to church/state ...
... liberal 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 ...
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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 | |