Since our Nation’s establishment--the Revolution in 1776 and the ratifying of the Constitution in 1787--a shift has occurred in American political attitude that is totally alien to our Founding Fathers. The noble perspective our ancestors held, and which separates them from modern legislators, is this: Today’s liberal politicians are more concerned about their own short-term success than they are of the Nation’s long-term survival. In contrast, the Founders pledged their “lives, fortunes, sacred honor,” in defense of freedom; before the Revolution ended many lost everything they owned. British troops chased John Hart through the swamps of New Jersey, forcing him and others to live like animals. Of the 55 framers of the Constitution, at least 50 were practicing Christians. James Madison, a guiding influence in the drafting of that amazing document, boldly declared at the conclusion of their work:
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government but upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
That same Constitution which Madison declared was dependent on the Ten Commandments for the governing of the people has now been abortively interpreted to forbid the display of those Commandments in American Courts. Beyond that, a false interpretation of the Constitution now intends to forcibly remove all references to God from National consciousness. That invasive political position is totally hostile to the intention of the Founding Fathers. Even before the Constitution, in 1776, when the last delegate put his signature to the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams exclaimed: "We have this day restored the Sovereign. He reigns in heaven, and from the rising to the setting of the sun, may His kingdom come!" Identically, President John Quincy Adams said of the Declaration: "It laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity." He spoke prophetically when he later declared,
"Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other"
