| Thomas Robbins - 560 Seiten
...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... | |
| Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein - 1992 - 598 Seiten
...ed, Documents of American History 169, 173 (Prentice-Hall, 9th ed 1973). Adams maintained that "[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Letter from John Adams to the officers of the First Brigrade of the Third Division of the militia of... | |
| Robert N. Bellah - 1992 - 223 Seiten
...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." 13 And Washington in his Farewell Address wrote, "Of all the suppositions and habits which lead to... | |
| Harold J. Berman - 2000 - 432 Seiten
...Adams meant when he said that the Constitution, with its guarantee of freedom 10 believe or disbelieve, "was made only for a moral and religious people. It...wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "*B It is not to be regarded as an instrument framed (in the words of a Missouri court in 1854) for... | |
| 1993 - 842 Seiten
...foundation." — Joseph Story, Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University in his 1829 inaugural address "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." — John Adams, Address to the Militia of Massachusetts, 1798 "Most... | |
| Said Amir Arjomand - 1993 - 318 Seiten
...passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution," he wrote, "was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 24 For all the brilliance of Tbcqueville's institutional analysis, his cultural functionalism assumes... | |
| William John Bennett - 1994 - 274 Seiten
...Our other Founders agreed. John Adams, a Massachusetts Unitarian, agreed in no uncertain terms: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." James Madison, an Episcopalian, insisted that "before any man can be considered as a member of Civil... | |
| Luis E. Lugo - 1995 - 290 Seiten
...not survive without the moral influence supplied by religion. As John Adams declared in 1798, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious...people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."41 In light of the confusion engendered by the term strict separation, I prefer to characterize... | |
| Charles M. Kelly - 1994 - 226 Seiten
...success: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom." John Adams was a little more specific: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." MORALITY: THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM Only a culture... | |
| Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...necessary spring of popular government."97 "Our Constitution," reaffirmed Adams in no uncertain terms, "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... | |
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