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“When sinners were created new, "the laws of God" were written on their hearts, "and that law which requires us to do as we would be done by." God's law exerts "a controlling effect upon the conscience." A population governed by God's law could "no more oppress their fellow-men, abridge any of their rights, or inflict pains and penalties for difference of opinion, than they can wish those acts of injustice should be visited on themselves.”
― Miles Smith, Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War