Are All 50 States Wrong?
"It is in the man of piety and inward principle, that we may expect
to find the uncorrupted patriot, the useful citizen, and the invincible
soldierGod grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may
be inseparable and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one, may
in the issue tend to the support and establishment of both."
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon
America's founders did not intend for there to be a separation of God
and state, as shown by the fact that all 50 states acknowledge God in
their state constitutions.
Somewhere along the way, the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court
have misinterpreted the U. S. Constitution.
How could fifty States be wrong? (here are just a few for example)
Arkansas 1874, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arkansas,
grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form
of government ...
California 1879, Preamble. We, the People of the State of California,
grateful to Almighty God for our freedom ...
Florida 1885, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Florida,
grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty ... establish this Constitution ...
grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings ...
Michigan 1908, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom ...
establish this Constitution
New York 1846, Preamble. We, the people of the State of New York,
grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings.
North Carolina 1868, Preamble. We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those ...
South Carolina 1778, Preamble. We, the people of he State of South Carolina. grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution ...
Tennessee 1796, Art. XI, Sec. 3. That all men have a natural
and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience...
After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, just maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship."
Patrick Henry
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
William Penn
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison, 1778
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."
Thomas Jefferson
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
John Adams
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."
Ronald Reagan