Our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ.

American Minute ^ | March 27, 2016 | by Bill Federer

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"Our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ." -Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer

U.S. Supreme Court stated in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, written by Justice David Josiah Brewer (143 U.S. 457-458, 465-471, 36 L ed 226):

"This is a religious people.

This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.


The commission to Christopher Columbus...(recited) that

'it is hoped that by God's assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered'...


The first colonial grant made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584...and the grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided

'that they be not against the true Christian faith'...


The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606...commenced the grant in these words:

'...in propagating of Christian Religion to such People as yet live in Darkness...'


Language of similar import may be found in the subsequent charters of that colony...in 1609 and 1611; and the same is true of the various charters granted to the other colonies.

In language more or less emphatic is the establishment of the Christian religion declared to be one of the purposes of the grant.


The celebrated compact made by the Pilgrims in the Mayflower, 1620, recites:

'Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith...a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia'...



The fundamental orders of Connecticut, under which a provisional government was instituted in 1638-1639, commence with this declaration:

'...And well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union...there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God...to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess...of the said gospel is now practiced amongst us.'


In the charter of privileges granted by William Penn to the province of Pennsylvania, in 1701, it is recited:

'...no people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyment of civil liberties, if abridged of...their religious profession and worship...'



Coming nearer to the present time, the Declaration of Independence recognizes the presence of the Divine in human affairs in these words:

'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights....

appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions...

And for the support of this Declaration, with firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor'...

These declarations...reaffirm that this is a religious nation."

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Justice Brewer continued in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States:

"While because of a general recognition of this truth the question has seldom been presented to the courts, yet we find that in Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, it was decided that,

'Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law...not Christianity with an established church...but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.'


And in The People v. Ruggles, Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said:

'The people of this State, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice...

We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors.'


And in the famous case of Vidal v. Girard's Executors (1844) this Court...observed:

'It is also said, and truly, that the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania'...

If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs and its society, we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth.

Among other matters note the following:


The form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty;

the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer;

the prefatory words of all wills, 'In the name of God, amen';

the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day;


the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town and hamlet;

the multitude of charitable organizations existing everywhere under Christian auspices;

the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe.

These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation..."



Justice Brewer continued:

"Or like that in articles 2 and 3 of part 1 of the constitution of Massachusetts, (1780)


'It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe...

As the happiness of a people and the good order and preservation of civil government essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality, and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of God and of public instructions in piety, religion, and morality:

Therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth...

authorize...the several towns, parishes, precincts...to make suitable provision...for the institution of the public worship of God and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality...'"


Justice Brewer added:

"Or, as in sections 5 and 14 of article 7 of the constitution of Mississippi, (1832:)

'No person who denies the being of a God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state...

Religion morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government, the preservation of liberty, and the happiness of mankind, schools, and the means of education, shall forever be encouraged in this state.'


Or by article 22 of the constitution of Delaware, (1776) which required all officers, besides an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe the following declaration:

'I, A.B., do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'"



Justice David Josiah Brewer had served on the Kansas Supreme Court, 1870-1884.

President Chester A. Arthur appointed him a Circuit Court Judge, 1884, then a Supreme Court Justice in 1889.


Justice David Josiah Brewer was nephew of Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field, with whom he serve 9 years on the bench.


Justice David Josiah Brewer died on MARCH 28, 1910.



In his work, The United States-A Christian Nation, published in Philadelphia by the John C. Winston Company, 1905, Justice David Josiah Brewer wrote:

"We classify nations in various ways. As, for instance, by their form of government.

One is a kingdom, another an empire, and still another a republic.

Also by race. Great Britain is an Anglo-Saxon nation, France a Gallic, Germany a Teutonic, Russia a Slav.

And still again by religion. One is a Mohammedan nation, others are heathen, and still others are Christian nations.

This republic is classified among the Christian nations of the World.

It was so formally declared by the Supreme Court of the United States..."



Justice David Josiah Brewer continued:

"We constantly speak of this republic as a Christian nation in fact, as the leading Christian nation of the world.

This popular use of the term certainly has significance...

In no charter or constitution is there anything to even suggest that any other than the Christian is the religion of this country.

In none of them is Mohammed or Confucius or Buddha in any manner noticed.

In none of them is Judaism recognized other than by way of toleration of its special creed..."



Justice Brewer concluded:

"While the separation of church and state is often affirmed, there is nowhere a repudiation of Christianity as one of the institutions as well as benedictions of society.

In short, there is no charter or constitution that is either infidel, agnostic, or anti-Christian.

Wherever there is a declaration in favor of any religion it is of the Christian...

I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ;

how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in question of morals."

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[Leaning Right]

Our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ.

That is so obvious that the Founders did not think it necessary to explicitly include it in the Constitution. It is a shame that they did not do so.

[faithhopecharity]

Thanks. So much nicer to read then more bs about candidates’ sex lives and wives and humping sheep. Now then, there are seven key things in the Hebrew Bible and confirmed as correct / taught by Jesus. These are: dignity of each person (because each is created in God’s image). Free will including the teaching that we are responsible to make moral choices. The sanctity of life and all this implies, choose life. The availability of starting anew after we’ve erred or gone astray, through repentance and recompense there is forgiveness and the opportunity to move forward again to new life. The significance/ sanctity of marriage and family. Our duties to others on both an individual and societal level. And they there are moral limits to and duties in the exercise of power (of any kind). These 7 Biblical teachings substantially guided our Republic’s founding - and for many years thereafter. Today though it appears much of America may be Losing contact with them all. Your thoughts most welcome so I will keep this short now. Best, fhc

[Ulysse]

Good and appropriate reminder

and the first and straight conclusion is that islam , which is an anti-christianism , can’t settle in US ( and in Europe ) .

Those who are trying to help islamization are mass criminals for some obscure interests ....

Moral individual considerations are coming after since we are all sinners trying to improve

[eartick]

This republic is classified among the Christian nations of the World.

This is the bottom line and the one that Obama is trying to change with his importation of his fellow Muslim heathens.

Europe has change itself with its importation and open arms to building mosques wherever and whenever.

The US must stop this importation and save its identity of be a Christian nation.

Teach its children this as one of the most important lessons as they grow and mature so that they will support the republic on its Christian foundation.

[Candor7]

Our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ.

That is so obvious that the Founders did not think it necessary to explicitly include it in the Constitution. It is a shame that they did not do so. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

They did not due so because most of the founders were freemasons. Actually Freemasonry and its organization influenced the founding documents to the point that much of the language in the constitution may be found in the liturgies of freem,asonry, which are old testament judeo Hebrew ( not Christian) but not exclusively so. As a universal fraternal order,Freemasonry in 1770 actually included all religions. Today you can find freemason lodges in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and the majority of the members are Buddhists.Benjamen Franklin attended Freemason lodges in both Washington and Paris.

So we cannot redefine history completely. The constitution is silent on religion because freemasonry was a secret organization that includes all religion from an Old Testament point of view. Therefore Christ had l ittle to do with itm, except for the fact that the founders were mostly Christian, although men like Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were not conventionally so, during their lives they rebelled somewhat against the Christianity of their own families, preferring to seek a personal path.

So we must remember why the Constitution is silent on Religion.It is much because the secret order of universal fraternity freemasonry, to which most of the founders belonged, wanted to include all of humanity as it was then understood. And they did.But many also believed at the time that slaves and native Americans were not entirely human, but that changed with time and so that is the way it really happened.

The link to Christianity was only part of it, and that because most founders were Freemasons first and Christians second.

[Samwell Tarly]

Look at it this way. What we're seeing around us right now is an object lesson about why the Founding Fathers were right.

But God only knows if we'll have the chance to have learned anything from it.

[BraveMan]

Bookmarked. Thank you for posting this.

[Ulysse]

And huuuu “freemasonism” is NOT a religion but only a cheap doctrine for nuts who believe that they are enlightened .

Some “freemasons” think that there is a kind of unknown “god” somewhere and THAT’s WHY they shamefully and secretly praise islam like the libtards using it deliberatly as a tool against christianism .......obama clinton and the UNbots

[SubMareener]

Well, Candor, whether or not “most founders were Freemasons first and Christians second”, YHWH is judging America as if they were Christians, and we have fallen away from the Way. So fight against “rewriting history” all you want, but, in times like these, it is best to “look up” because your redemption is near.

[trebb]

Amen and Amen again.

[knarf]

The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74%. The "Ground Zero mosque", a planned mosque in lower Manhattan, was the subject of controversy from 2010 on.

Mosques in the US

Distribution of mosques within the US

[eartick]

Wiki shows only 5 where 302 in Texas by the other link. Pretty big difference. I had heard there were 200+ in Texas.

Sounds like a target rich environment for the Texas Government and Patriots.

[knarf]

All data is subject to date and source

The point being ... WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN INVADED AND ONLY DONALD TRUMP IS SAYING SO

Even here in FR ... longtime freepers use words that sound like we can stem the tide if we only ....

I retired from truck driving three or four years ago and I can remember getting lost in a somewhat residential area in Maryland and passing a huge elaborate mosque, sort of hidden by shrubbery and a relatively small and plain sign (about 4X8) identifying it as such

Up until that time, the concept of "mosque" was just a word to this SW Pa boy

[zzwhale]

as the country becomes more godless..... so does it rot from within

[Oratam]

The attacks on our way of life must have been gaining momentum before 1905 for Justice Brewer to have produced such a book.

[zzwhale]

SAUDI ARABIA funded 9/11....
SAUDI ARABIA has funded the construction of over 3000 mosques in the USA, far in excess for the current number of muslims here.....
obama the traitor has plans to continues to bring in 100000+ for the next few years...
remember the bow to the king of saudi arabia... ???
so there have been over 2 million muslims imported into the USA by this traitor for the sole purpose of formenting the same septic tank scenario we are watching unfold in europe.... people should be outraged and demanding a stop to this insanity.... 95% of the imports go on welfare and stay there... the will of the people is being flaunted by self enriching politicians and religious front groups in it for the $$$... meantime jobs are exported, national security is scuttled, borders are open and no one is doing anything about it.... wonder why trump is resonating....??? its just the beginning... of the PEOPLE taking the country back .......

[Leaning Right]

I don’t know if I buy the “most founders were Freemasons first and Christians second” part of your argument, but you offered a very interesting perspective nevertheless.

[mumblypeg]

200+ sounds more like it, judging by my 2007 copy of the Dallas Muslim Yellow Pages. There were dozens of mosques and madrassas just in the Dallas area.
Also, consider that a mosque isn’t always an obvious stand alone building. A lot of mosques are just a rented storefront, or in a room above a store, or something like that. When the congregation gets big enough, then they build their building.

[mumblypeg]

“dozens of mosques and madrassas”

p.s. Not to mention thousands of Muslim owned businesses.
By doing business with them, we are funding jihad.