A DIFFERENCE IN
RELIGIOUS POSTURE
We should not ignore
the turning away from God in the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Yale
Seminary President Timothy Dwight rightly pointed out in his address on July
23, 1812:
"Notwithstanding the prevalence of Religion, which I have
described, the irreligion, and the wickedness, of our land are such, as to
furnish a most painful and melancholy prospect to a serious mind. We formed our
Constitution without any acknowledgment of God; without any recognition of his
mercies to us, as a people, of his government, or even of his existence. The
Convention, by which it was formed, never asked, even once, his direction, or
his blessing upon their labours. Thus
we commenced our national existence under the present system, without God. I
wish I could say, that a disposition to render him the reverence, due to his
great Name, and the gratitude, demanded by his innumerable mercies, had been
more public, visible, uniform, and fervent.”
Compare that with the history of the Continental Congress leading
up to and under the Articles of Confederation, such as outlined at http://leaderu.org/orgs/cdf/onug/contcong.html
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The Continental Congress of the original 13 colonies of what would
become the United States of America was established to resist the unfair tax
practices and tyrannical laws and policies imposed on the colonies by Great
Britain. On September 6, 1774 -- less than two years before the colonies
formally declared independence from Great Britain -- the Continental Congress
made its first official act a call for prayer. And on May 16, 1776, the
Continental Congress appointed an official national day of fasting and prayer
for the colonies:
The Congress....Desirous...to have people of all ranks and degrees
duly impressed with a solemn sense of God's superintending providence, and of
their duty, devoutly to rely...on His aid and direction...Do earnestly
recommend Friday, the 17th day of May be observed by the colonies as a day of
humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that we may, with united hearts, confess and
bewailed our manifold sins and transgressions, and, by sincere repentance and
amendment of life, appease God's righteous displeasure, and, through the merits
and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain this pardon and forgiveness.
The Continental Congress on September 11, 1777, ordered the
importation of 20,000 Bibles for the American troops. The law read as follows:
The
use of the Bible is so universal and its importance so great that your
committee refers the above to the consideration of Congress, and if Congress
shall not think it expedient to order the importation of types and paper, the
Committee recommends that Congress will order the Committee of Commerce to
import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or elsewhere, into the different
parts of the States of the Union. Whereupon it was resolved accordingly to
direct said Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 copies of the Bible.
Indeed, the Congress authorized its endorsement to be printed on
the front page of the edition of the Bible approved for the American people:
Whereupon, Resolved, that the Unites States in Congress
assembled...recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the
Unites States, and hereby authorize [Robert Aitken] to publish this
recommendation in the manner he shall think proper.
The Continental Congress on October 18, 1780, issued another
Proclamation for a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer:
Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God, the Father of all mercies,
amidst the vicissitudes and calamities of war, to bestow blessings on the
people of these states, which call for their devout and thankful
acknowledgments, more especially in the late remarkable interposition of his
watchful providence, in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and
the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for
execution...
It is therefore recommended to the several states...a day of
public thanksgiving and prayer, that all the people may assemble on that day
celebrate the praises of our Divine Benefactor; to confess our unworthiness of
the least of His favors, and to offer our fervent supplication to the God of
all grace...to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth.
On July 13, 1787, the Continental Congress passed "An
Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States":
Article III
Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the
happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever
encouraged.
It is time to revert back
to the order established by the Articles of Confederation, and for the
Anglo-American patriot States to depart from the US Federal empire model. This entails partitioning the “blue areas”
out of the USA, dissolving the centralized Federal Government based in
Washington, DC, and restoring for the red USA its founding constitution which
was illegally abandoned, the Articles of Confederation:
Hence the Goal of our Cause is to partition out
of the USA those liberal blue areas in a sea of red areas that remain part of
the USA and to restore to the USA of Anglo-American Patriot
States the Articles
of Confederation as our national constitution. The USA was founded as a
Confederation of Anglo-American
Patriot
States, not as a centralized “global
nation” empire ruled by elites. Yet progressively the former founding
vision has been replaced by the latter political reality. This Cause seeks to return America to its
historic identity, an identity described in historian Dr. Samuel P.
Huntington’s book Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity.
America’s
first national flag (the Continental Colors or Grand Union flag) is the
symbol of our enterprise precisely because it reflects our national identity:
National Facebook
Page Advocating A Citizens Militia for Every Red County: https://www.facebook.com/2A-Citizens-Militia-for-Every-Red-County-110198677224723/
National Facebook Group Advocating A
Return to the Articles of Confederation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReturnToArticlesOfConfederation/
Committees of Correspondence by State: http://www.puritans.net/articles/State%20Committees%20of%20Correspondence%20by%20State.htm
Index of Articles related to this Cause: http://www.puritans.net/articles/indexarticlesconfederation.htm
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