The True America
Christianity and The Constitution
This year America celebrated its 223rd birthday. In that light, I wanted to make a couple of corrections to popular, though FALSE, beliefs regarding religion and the Constitution.
It is a never ending tirade on the part of the ACLU to misstate the aims of the founders of our country. The liberal left, as represented by the ACLU, has willfully misled the people of this country for far too long.
Falsehood: The founders intended that the government of the United States be divorced completely from religion, any religious influences, symbols, beliefs, etc.
Fact: There is NO mention in the Constitution regarding "Separation of Church and State"!
The United States of America was founded by Puritans. At the time of the signing of The Constitution , 98% of the population of the 13 states making up the United States were practicing Christians.
Every one of the signers of that document expressed a personal belief in the God of the Bible. The vast majority of those men were devout Christians. Many had written regarding their faith and several were ministers of the Gospel.
The Ordinance of 1787, (Also known as the Northwest Ordinance) which established provisions for governing the Northwest Territory, an area that eventually became the states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and part of Minnesota.
The Northwest Ordinance stands as one of the four most important documents in our development as a nation, along with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Constitution, signed on September 17, 1787, and the Bill of Rights in 1791.
It provided the means by which new territories became states on an equal footing with the 13 original states, assuring the orderly growth of the United States as it expanded westward. Thirty-one states of the Union, including Indiana, achieved statehood under the provisions of the Ordinance of 1787.
The Articles of Compact of the Northwest Ordinance assured citizens of certain basic rights and freedoms, including religious freedom, the right to trial by jury and the writ of habeas corpus, the sanctity of property and contracts, the encouragement of education and the prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude. Many of which rights and freedoms were not a part of the Constitution until passage in 1791 of the Bill of Rights and the passage of amendments following the Civil War.
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