{"id":1111,"date":"2013-04-06T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2013-06-23T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:13:16","slug":"americas-biblical-foundation-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Americas Biblical Foundation and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, &#8220;The LORD Is My Banner,&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Exodus 17:15<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">[Please watch for structural changes I am planning for this site.\u00a0 Itasca]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The following video presents clips of former President Reagan speaking about God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, the First Amendment, our national character, &#8220;the one path that provides real hope&#8221; for our Nation, and more.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[It is 4 minutes 48 seconds long.\u00a0 I have no control over what other videos are offered at the end of the embedded feature.\u00a0 There are several more of President Reagan at the end of this one.]<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A Video Tribute by Bel Air Presbyterian Church:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;President Ronald Reagan: Man of Faith&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ronald Reagan Tribute -- Bel Air Presbyterian Church\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvN1jTkzXbY?start=113&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>President Reagan did not <em>IMAGINE<\/em> America&#8217;s relationship to the Creator of the Universe. The unprecedented success of Our Nation, Under God, occurred precisely because we, as a nation, believed in God and based our national character upon His precepts, and in a deep, abiding, faith in Him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">No, not everything about America has been <em>perfect<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>But, in contrast to every other nation on Earth, our foundation lies uniquely in the justice that only exists in God.\u00a0 The Heart of America ever-reaches for improvement in accordance with God&#8217;s will and purpose.\u00a0 Because we are a Nation of Free Individuals, under God, we don&#8217;t always succeed, but the Heart of America desires to do what is Right.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The perfect nation will never be found on Earth, because Man and Creation are Fallen.\u00a0 Man cannot create &#8220;heaven on earth.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[1]<\/span>\u00a0 Even until the Last Day, no nation can be perfect.\u00a0 But, with God&#8217;s Love, Help, and Providence, America can excel as the best possible nation on Earth, once again.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[1] See &#8220;WHO IS Obama? Part 4: Heaven on Earth?&#8221; on this site.]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We can sincerely strive to do all that we can, with God&#8217;s Help and Guidance, to live our lives as Free Individuals, accountable to Him for what we do with our Liberty.\u00a0 We can choose renewal as a Free Nation conceived in Liberty<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[2]<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, as a Reborn United States of America.\u00a0 In which, we can seek to truly Live in Freedom exercising our God-given Liberty, with a limited government shackled to deny its voracious desire to consume the Sovereign People it serves.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">[ [2] Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address, see Historical Documents Section on this site.]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The first document created in the name of the <em>united<\/em> States of America,<br \/>\ndeclared without equivocation or apology, that:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain <em>in<\/em>alienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness <span style=\"color: #800000;\">[Right to pursue and hold Property]<\/span>.&#8211;That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,&#8211;That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And, its last words, above the signatures:<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>[&#8220;The Declaration of Independence&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America&#8221;\u00a0 See Historical Documents Section on this site.]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">American Freedom is not the anarchic chaos of the 1960s&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>demands for license to &#8220;do your own thing&#8221; without regard for the overall economic, physical, and spiritual health of our Nation &#8211; which presupposes the same overall health and the right to pursue property for every Individual.\u00a0 The Liberty God creates us to live, is not enslavement to our base fleshly desires, but freedom from the shackles of sin and death that hold us captive until we Believe and are Liberated to live for God&#8217;s will and purpose, instead &#8211; which guarantees to each the true happiness found only in Him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>John 3:16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[For further commentary on limited government versus anarchy, see, &#8220;WHO IS Obama? Part 2: Foundation,&#8221; and:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertarianism_qa\">http:\/\/www.aynrand.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertarianism_qa<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>;]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Too often people allege that the Constitution forbids God&#8217;s presence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in any of our public discourse.\u00a0 However, the historical record is replete with proof to the contrary.\u00a0 As one such proof, reference the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><strong><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>[See the Historical Documents Section of this site.]\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>[The &#8220;general Welfare&#8221; clause is NOT a license to create a collectivist welfare state in our Free Republic!!!]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The phrase,<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;&#8230;and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>is a declaration that Liberty entails<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;Blessings&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>from our Creator God, and is acknowledgement that these Blessings are desirable to be secured to the founders, themselves, and to their Posterity &#8211; all those who have come after them &#8211; and who have continually enjoyed the Rights guaranteed by the Constitution they framed and implemented to the benefit of All Americans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Until now!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The First Amendment to the Constitution<\/span><span style=\"color: #025278;\">[2]<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">has staggered under unconstitutional demands for government to muzzle the our Right to Freely Exercise our Religion &#8211; meaning, Christianity and other religions that do not advocate overthrow of the United States of America &#8211;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;Free Exercise&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">does not mean freedom to study and exercise one&#8217;s religion solely in the confines of one&#8217;s home!\u00a0 [ <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">[2]<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #025278;\">First Amendment.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">See Historical Documents Section.]<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It does not extend to such<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;religions&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">as islam, which is a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">fully integrated tyrannical, political, military, and enslaving <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>religious <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">system<\/span> that goes far-beyond the American concept of a society whose government is subservient to the Will of the People based upon Biblical Values and Truth.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam uses the collectivist tactic of calling a thing what it is not, to deceive and conquer under the guise of something else entirely.<\/span>\u00a0 This is NOT the concept of &#8220;religion&#8221; intended by the Founders or the Sovereign People who voted to ratify the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 The First Amendment does not give license to enemies of America&#8217;s Liberty to overthrow our Republic using our own Constitution against us!\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson owned a koran to know the Enemy!<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>Further, the authoritarian attempts of &#8220;our&#8221; government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to Establish the Religion of Secular Humanism, and to enable subversion of our Nation by that tyrannical system known as islam with its unconstitutional societal laws &#8211; Sharia &#8211; and its &#8220;scripture&#8221; based mandate to abolish all political, military, and religious systems outside islam, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">blatantly violate the<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;Free exercise clause&#8221; of the First Amendment.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Collectivist\/Progressives have succeeded in promoting the current state-of-affairs in which Moral Absolutes are denied, and Values and Virtues derived from The Holy Bible denigrated and demonized.\u00a0 America can not long continue in the face of this War on God and His Holy Scriptures, without awaking, repenting and turning back to Him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>America is under attack from within as well as from without.\u00a0 We would do well to hearken to the words of the psalmist, King David, and turn back to the One, True God &#8211; Creator of the Universe!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>Psalm 5:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>Hear my words, HASHEM, perceive my thoughts.<br \/>\nHearken to the sound of my outcry, my King and my God,<br \/>\nfor to You do I pray.<br \/>\nHASHEM, at dawn hear my voice, at dawn as I arrange<br \/>\n[my prayer] before You, and I wait expectantly.<br \/>\nFor You are not a God who desires wickedness, no evil<br \/>\nsojourns with You.<br \/>\nRoisterers cannot stand firm before Your eyes,<br \/>\nYou despise all evildoers.<br \/>\nMay You doom the speakers of deception;<br \/>\nHASHEM abhors a bloodthirsty and deceitful man.<br \/>\nBut I, through Your abundant kindness I will enter Your house;<br \/>\nI will prostrate myself toward Your Holy Sanctuary in awe of You.<br \/>\nHASHEM, guide me in Your righteousness, because of my watchful enemies;<br \/>\nmake Your way straight before me.<br \/>\nFor there is no sincerity in the mouth of any of them,<br \/>\ntheir inner [thought] is treacherous; their throat an open grave,<br \/>\ntheir tongue is glib.<br \/>\nDeclare them guilty, O God, may they fall short in their schemes;<br \/>\ncast them away because of their many sins,<br \/>\nfor they have rebelled against You.<br \/>\nBut all who take refuge in You will rejoice, they will sing joyously forever,<br \/>\nYou will shelter them; and those who love Your Name will exult in You.<br \/>\nWhen You will bless the righteous, HASHEM,<br \/>\nYou will envelop him with favor like a shield.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Translation from The Stone Edition, Tanach [Christians call the Tanach, The Old Testament].<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">We must pray for Revival by God&#8217;s Holy Spirit in America,<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>and for a return to the Foundation of the Greatest Nation ever to exist upon Earth.\u00a0 Without her special relationship with God, as her Spiritual Sovereign under Whom We The American People hold Popular Sovereignty, we will fall &#8211; and that Fall will be devastating indeed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2 Corinthians 7:14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">For further documentary proof of our Biblical Foundation<\/span> <span style=\"color: #025278;\">and its acknowledgement of God,<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I received an\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>E-mail message<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> listing excerpts, appearing below, <\/strong><strong>d<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rawn from our State Constitutions.\u00a0 T<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>hey add emphasis to President Reagan&#8217;s words, and are compelling witnesses to, and confirmation of, the <em>true foundation<\/em> of the <em>United<\/em> States of America:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Our Nation is founded upon the Common Law, derived<br \/>\nfrom the Ten Commandments of The Holy Bible of Almighty God.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WE KNOW,<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">and History s<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">upports the fact:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">That the God acknowledged in each of these excerpts,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>IS<\/em> THE GOD OF THE BIBLE:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">One True God,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creator of the Universe<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">and ALL that is therein.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Without this Biblical Foundation, the United States of America would be just another nation among the many in Man&#8217;s History, and not the exceptional, free and prosperous Nation she has been for 236 years.\u00a0 It is God Who blesses and has preserved America throughout her History.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From our State Constitutions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Alabama 1901,<\/strong> <strong>Preamble:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the\u00a0 favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the\u00a0 following Constitution&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alaska 1956, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Alaska, g<\/span><span style=\"color: #025278;\">rateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great\u00a0 land.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arizona 1911, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of\u00a0 the State of Arizona, grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arkansas 1874, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">California 1879, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Colorado 1876, Preamble:<br \/>\n<\/span>We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Connecticut 1818, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of\u00a0 God in permitting them to enjoy.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Delaware 1897, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshiping and\u00a0 serving their Creator according to the dictates of their\u00a0 consciences.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Florida 1885, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Florida, grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, establish this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Georgia 1777, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Georgia, relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hawaii 1959, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Hawaii, Grateful for Divine Guidance&#8230; Establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Idaho 1889, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Idaho, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Illinois 1870, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Indiana 1851, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Iowa 1857, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings, establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kansas 1859, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kentucky 1891, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to Almighty God for the civil,\u00a0 political and religious liberties&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Louisiana 1921, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maine 1820, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the\u00a0 Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity&#8230; And imploring His aid and direction.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maryland 1776, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the state of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Massachusetts 1780, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We&#8230;the people of\u00a0 Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe In the course of His Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring His direction<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michigan 1908, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Minnesota 1857, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mississippi 1890, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God,\u00a0 and invoking His blessing on our work.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Missouri 1845, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness.\u00a0 Establish this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Montana 1889, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Montana, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty\u00a0 establish this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nebraska 1875, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom.\u00a0 Establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nevada 1864, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, establish this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New Hampshire 1792, Part I. Art. I. Sec. V.:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New Jersey 1844, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and\u00a0 religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New Mexico 1911, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New York 1846, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its\u00a0 blessings<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North Carolina 1868, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North Dakota 1889, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ohio 1852, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the people of the state of Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oklahoma 1907, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the\u00a0 blessings of liberty, establish this&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oregon 1857, Bill of\u00a0 Rights, Article I Section 2.:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences&#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pennsylvania 1776, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His\u00a0 guidance&#8230;..<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rhode Island 1842, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing&#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">South Carolina 1778, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of South Carolina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">South Dakota 1889, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of South Dakota, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tennessee 1796, Art.\u00a0 XI..III.:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">That all men have a\u00a0 natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Texas 1845, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the People of the Republic of Texas, acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Utah 1896, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vermont 1777, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Whereas all government ought to enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Virginia 1776, Bill of Rights, XVI:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,&#8230;can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience,&#8230;mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Washington 1889, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the\u00a0 Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">West Virginia 1872, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and\u00a0 religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wisconsin 1848, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic\u00a0 tranquility&#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wyoming 1890, Preamble:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #025278;\">We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties, establish\u00a0 this Constitution&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">May We the Sovereign People of the United States of America<\/span> awaken to the clear and present danger rearing its tyrannical head, as this once-free Nation faces defeat from within by the evil forces of collectivism &#8211; the satanic system designed to enslave us through government.\u00a0 I pray America will soon repent and turn back to God, seeking His will and purpose for the very Life of the United States of America.\u00a0 Amen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Itasca Small<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I 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