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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... speech celebrating the 250th anniversary of Norwich, Connecticut, in 1909. “Well, if you are going to be exact, they came to this country to establish freedom of their religion, and not the freedom of anybody else's religion.” It is ...
... speech, the institutions they established and ideals on which they built these institutions would facilitate the development of liberal democracy and First Amendment rights. To call earlyseventeenth-century New England a theocracy—if by ...
... speech— worship was remarkably democratic. Psalms were chanted in the most chaotic form imaginable, each congregant taking one line and belting it out freestyle. Worship at times resembled a town meeting, with participants invited to ...
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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 | |