To: MamaB
Hey, just wanted to let you know, you forgot a couple of words, UNDER GOD!!!!
Where in the Constitution is there any reference to the American nation being subordinate to any deity? (no, the date does not make that reference).
-Eric
79 posted on
03/01/2003 8:34:10 AM PST by
E Rocc
To: E Rocc
The following excerpt firmly establishes that the founders and citizens who ratified the Constitution understood America to be subject to God's laws and to the Creator. Any pretense to the contrary was tacked onto our nation's essence as an inorganic and inauthentic afterthought - by activist jurists.
It was not something open to serious debate and therefor being subjec to God is implicit in every word of the Constitution:
The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,---
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