Constitution and Addresses of the National Association for the Amendment of the Constitution of the United StatesThe Committee, 1864 - 17 páginas |
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Página 11 - As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion...
Página 6 - We, the people of the United States, [humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, and His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government...
Página 8 - Connecticut and the lands thereunto adjoining ; and well knowing where a people are gathered together, the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God...
Página 12 - Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Página 9 - As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Página 9 - Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law of Pennsylvania; ... not Christianity with an established church, and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.
Página 4 - ... blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the people,] do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 8 - Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea ; and that the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
Página 3 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled : We, citizens of the United States, respectfully ask your honorable bodies to adopt measures for amending the Constitution of the United States, so as to read in substance as follows : We, the people of the United States, [humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, and His revealed will as...
Página 14 - ... the wicked shall be turned into hell, with all the nations that forget God.