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The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy (Hardcover)
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Our Independence and the Constitution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 54 ratings — published 1950
“...this is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation...
There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons. They are organic utterances. They speak the voice of the entire people. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian Nation... we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth. U.S. Supreme Court, 1892 (Church of the Holy Trinity v United States)”
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There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons. They are organic utterances. They speak the voice of the entire people. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian Nation... we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth. U.S. Supreme Court, 1892 (Church of the Holy Trinity v United States)”
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“Freedom and restrictions cannot coexist.”
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