 | Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke - History - 1848 - 508 pages
...licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations.... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 488 pages
...blood, and around which the hopes of the nation are clustered.1 " Our constitution," wrote John Adams, " was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."2 Such has ever been, and such, it is to be hoped, will continue to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Constitutional law - 1963 - 306 pages
...religious principle." John Adams, speaking to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, observed that : "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." We find public expression of reliance upon divine providence again... | |
 | Gary C. Bryner, Noel B. Reynolds - Political Science - 1987 - 206 pages
...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."53 "Our Constitution," stressed John Adams, "was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - Law - 1990 - 200 pages
...religious principles. They established the republic on a premise articulated by John Adams in 1798: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."4 Whether the Constitution can endure in the absence of a moral and... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein - Law - 1992 - 598 pages
...Commager, ed, Documents of American History 169, 173 (Prentice-Hall, 9th ed 1973). Adams maintained that "[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Letter from John Adams to the officers of the First Brigrade of the... | |
 | Reference - 1993 - 842 pages
...The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Mark 1 3:31 , YLTHB) "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." — John Adams, Address to the Militia of Massachusetts, 1798 'Anderson, James ND, Morality,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - Social Science - 1993 - 380 pages
...capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality or religion. Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. To demonstrate this, I will consider three areas with the moral dimension most visibly impact... | |
 | Harold J. Berman - Religion - 2000 - 432 pages
...Adams meant when he said that the Constitution, with its guarantee of freedom 10 believe or disbelieve, "was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "*B It is not to be regarded as an instrument framed (in the words... | |
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. 
