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That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when
I reflect that God is just that His justice cannot sleep forever".

George Washington understood this when he said: "The favorable smiles of Heaven can

never be expected on a nation that disregards The eternal rules of order and right which
Heaven itself has ordained".

Benjamin Franklin understood this when he said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of
freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters".

John Adams understood this when he said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral

and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".

Patrick Henry understood this when he said: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or

too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on
religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths

have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here".

James Madison understood this when he said: "We have staked the whole future of

American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the
future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government;

upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God".

Noah Webster understood this when he said: "No truth is more evident to my mind than

that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights
and privileges of a free people". (Father of American Scholarship and Education)

THE NAME GAME, PEOPLE OR CITIZEN

14th Amendment Article I, section 1 - All persons born or naturalized in the United States,

and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the

privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person

within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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