...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 be, the general character...

...of the Constitution ; and drew from John Adams the statement th-.it " our Constitution was made ' ' for a moral and religious People ; it is wholly "inadequate to the government of any other." Having accomplished this work, Parsons again retired to his profession, to receive the highest honora...

...adoption of the Constitution ; and drew from John Adams the statement that " our Constitution was made ' ' for a moral and religious People ; it is wholly "inadequate to the government of any other." Having accomplished this work, Parsons again retired to his profession, to receive the highest honors...

...convinced of the solidity of what once was taken for flight. "Ambition avarice and revenge will snap the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net." I have the honor to be with great and sincere esteem your obliged and obedient Servant. i From the...

...religious principle." John Adams, speaking to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, observed that : "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." We find public expression of reliance upon divine providence again and again, over the years, in the...

...human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams tended to view virtue and interest as offsetting principles, both necessary to a republic. But...

...human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. And Washington in his Farewell Address wrote, Of all the suppositions and habits which lead to political...

...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 for the government of any other' ' (95). In his Farewell Address, President Washington cautioned against...

...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."53 "Our Constitution," stressed John Adams, "was made only for a moral and religious people. It...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality...

...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 religious milieu remains...