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- In God We Trust
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"My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride. When I am afraid, I will trust in you [God]. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?... For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling [for those who follow you], that I may walk before God in the light of life."
- Psalm 56:2-4, 13 (NIV)
- John Adams
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"The general Principles, on which the Fathers achieved Independence, were… ...the general Principles of Christianity... Now I will avow, that I then believed, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and attributes of God...” [Note: Emphasis is Adam's.]
- John Adams: Educator, Attorney, Jurist, Diplomat; delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence; appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention and wrote most of the first draft of the Massachusetts Constitution; served two terms as Vice-President under President George Washington; second President of the United States.
Quoted From: Photographic facsimile of John Adam's letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 28 1813. From Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress collection.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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