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Old Deluder Act, 1647 (Massachusetts General Court) "It being one chief point of the old deluder, Satan, to keep men from knowledge of the Scriptures ... it is therefore, ordered that every thownship in this jurisdiction, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within this town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to read and write ... Forasmuch as it greatly concurs the welfare of this country, that youth thereof be educated, not only in good literature, but sound doctrine." 1787 Northwest Ordinance (pass in Congress in 1789) "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good means of learning shall forever be encouraged." Delaware's Constitution (1776) "Everone appointed to public office must say, 'I do profess faith in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God and blessed forevermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration." South Carolina's Constitution "The Christian Protestant religion shall be deemed, and is hereby constituted and declared to be, the established religion of the State ... No person should be eligible to a seat in the Senate unless he be of the Protestant religion ..." Connecticut's First Constitution "the Providence of Almighty God" declared the purpose of the political establishment was to "maintain and preserve the Gospel of our Lord Jesus ... the Scriptures hold forth a perfect rule of the direction and government of all men in all duties they are to perform for God and man." Pennsylvania's First Legislative Act (in Chester, December 1682) "Government in itself is a venerable ordinance of God" with the principal concern "of the freemen of Pennsylvania to make and establish such laws as shall best preserve true Christian and civil liberty, in opposition to unchristian, licentious, and unjust practices." 1665 Colonial Legislature of New York ordered that a church should be erected in each parish and that ministers should preach each Sabbath. 1669 South Carolina "Fundamental Constitution" Permitted Jews and other dissenters from the purity of the Christian religion to form churches on condition they (1) acknowledge the existence of the God of Scripture, (2) that God should be worshipped, and (3) every man, at the command of the magistrate, should testify in some form indicating a recognition of Divine justice and of human responsibility. Constitutions of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Delaware, and Maryland (1776) Required a professional belief in the truths of the Christian religion as a condition of holding office or place of trust. 1838 New York Legislature "This is a Christian nation ... Our Government depends for its very being on the virtue of its people — on the virtue that has its foundation in the morality of the Christian religion and that this religion is common and prevailing faith of the people." The Great and General Court of Massachusetts 1776 Proclamation "that piety and virtue, which alone can secure the freedom of any people, may be encouraged, they command and enjoin upon the good people of this colony that they lead sober, religious, and peaceable lives avoiding all blasphemies, contempt of the Holy Scripture and of the Lord's Day, and all other crimes and misdemeanors." 1802 Ohio Constition, Bill of Rights, Section 7 "Religion, morality and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction." September 6, 1774: First Act of Continental Congress "the Rev. Mr. Duche be desired to open Congress tomorrow morning with prayer." June 1774, Virginia, at the first news of the Boston Port Bill Thomas Jefferson proposed a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... to implore Heaven to avert from us the horrors of civil war." December 11, 1776 Fast Day proclaimed with God being acknowledged as the Supreme "Disposer of events, and Arbiter of the fate of nations." November 1776 — Congress Congress sent notice to several states and to Washington's army calling for a service of thanksgiving for the victory over Burgoyne in which all men were exhorted "to confess their manifold sins" and to make "supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive ..." 1780 Congress Congress sent forth a call of thanksgiving entreating God to "cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over the earth" March 19, 1782 Congress "The United States, in Congress assembled" called men to pray "that the religion of our divine Redeemer, with all its divine influences, may cover the earth as the water covers the seas." 1783 Congress "The United States of America, in a committe of States assembled" recommend to the "Supreme Executives of the several States" to call the people to give thanks to God that He "has been pleased to continue to us the light of Gospel truth." March 23, 1778 Proclamation for a Fast Day recognizing the "Redeemer of mankind" March 8, 1799 Proclamation for a Fast Day recognizing the "great Mediator and Redeemer and the Holy Spirit" March 2, 1863 United States Senate Passed a resolution declaring war upon "the assurance of His [God's] Word" with their purpose being to seek God "through Jesus Christ". Judge Story of Massachusetts and Supreme Court Justice Judge Story wrote in his Institutes of International Law "One of the beautiful traits of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is part of our common law, from which it seeks the sanction of its rights, and by which it endeavors to regulate its doctrine." 1824 Pennsylvania Supreme Court In a judgment on a case of blasphemy stated, "Christianity, general Christianity, is part of the common law of Pennsylvania". Judge Parsons of Massachusetts and Chief Justice Kent of New York (1811) delivered similar opinions. 1811 New York Supreme Court Justice Allen Allen delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court: "Christianity is part of the common law of this state, in the qulified sense that it is entitled to respect and protection as the acknowledged religion of the people." House of Representatives — May 1, 1789 Elected Rev. William Linn as chaplain appropriating $500 from the federal treasury to pay his salary. Congressional Joint Resolution of September 24, 1789 Had US citizens thank God for the opportunity to establish this country with George Washington signing the proclamation. |
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