| Tedd Adamovich - Fiction - 2000 - 237 pages
...and vicious, they have more need of masters.' And John Adams may have stated it best when he said, 'Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.' "If we sink any lower, we won't deserve a democratic republic. We... | |
| Andrew L. Fitz-Gibbon - Religion - 2000 - 294 pages
...armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams §32 INTRODUCTION During the mid 1970s, there occurred a... | |
| James H. Hutson - History - 2000 - 228 pages
...would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.49 So strongly did John Adams believe this that when he wrote to his... | |
| W. Arden Clarke - Religion - 2001 - 383 pages
...the author's second paragraph Mrs. Thatcher quoted John Adams saying, "Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." By this measure those who claim that democracy does not work or is unsuitable for today's sophisticated... | |
| A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religion."7 John Adams declared: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Franklin, at a tense moment at the Constitutional Convention, urged... | |
| David Limbaugh - Law - 2001 - 408 pages
...constitution, regardless of how brilliantly crafted, could completely prevent abuses. John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." If, for example, the president happens not to be a man of virtue and... | |
| Darrow L. Miller, Stan Guthrie - Religion - 2001 - 324 pages
...Neither can work alone. As John Adams said about the nascent political experiment that was America: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.12 In such a system, our focus shifts from rights to responsibilities.... | |
| K. G. Powderly, Jr. - 2002 - 510 pages
...n Edition), p. 345, 1995, Word Publishing, Dallas, Tx. 4. Ibid. pp. 345-346 5. Ibid. pp. 345-346 6. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "—John Adams, Founding Father, President of the United States 20... | |
| Theodore L. Johnson - Social Science - 2002 - 600 pages
...government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ^5 When it comes the Second Amendment, the disregard of oaths of office,... | |
| James R. Wilburn - Political Science - 2002 - 188 pages
...revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as water 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.4 The people of the former Soviet Union are finding this out the hard... | |
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