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i “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute,” The Wall Street Journal, 20 October 2008, p. A19
ii Abraham Lincoln, Draft of the Gettysburg Address: Nicolay Copy, November 1863; Series 3, General Correspondence, 1837-1897; The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D. C.: American Memory Project, [2000-02])
iii John Jay, The Correspondence and Public Papers of John, Jay, Henry P. Johnston, editor (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890), Vol. I, pp. 163–164, from his “Charge to the Grand Jury of Ulster County” on September 9, 1777.
iv Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), Vol. IV, p. 373, to Judge William Johnson on June 12, 1823.
vJoseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833), Vol. I, p. 383, § 400.
vi John Quincy Adams, The Jubilee of the Constitution (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839), p. 54.
vii Samuel Adams, The Writing of Samuel Adams, at 357 of Volume IV (Collected & edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing, G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1908).
viii Gulf, c. & s. F. R. Co. V. Ellis, 165 U.S. 150 (1897)
ix Lossing, B. J. (1870). Lives of the signers of the Declaration of American independence. The declaration historically considered (252). Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart & co.
xIbid., p. 254
xiThe Declaration of Independence, para. 2 (U.S. 1776).
xiiGeorge Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States … Preparatory to His Declination
22–23 (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge, 1796).1
xiii Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1794), Query XVIII, p. 237. 13
xiv James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, at 209-10 (reprinted NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987) (1787).
xv Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, & James Madison, The Federalist (Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818), p. 194, James Madison, Federalist #38; see also Federalist #2 (p. 12) and Federalist #20 (p. 105) for other acknowledgments of the blessings of Providence upon America.
xvi Hamilton, Alexander. 1787. Christine F. Hart, One Nation Under God (NJ: American Tract Society, reprinted by Gospel Tract Society, Inc.), p. 2. D.P. Diffine, Ph.D., One Nation Under God—How Close a Separation? (Searcy, Arkansas: Harding University, Belden Center for Private Enterprise Education, 6th edition, 1992), p. 9.

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xvii Letters To The Marquis De Lafayette, February 7 & May28, 1788.
xviii Donald S. Lutz, The Origins of American Constitutionalism (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), p. 143.
xx Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646. Ed. William T. Davis. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908
xxi John M. Taylor, Garfield of Ohio: The Available Man (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.), p. 180. Quoted from “A Century of Progress,” by James A. Garfield, published in Atlantic, July 1877. 21
xxii Madison’s Notes to the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, 14 August 1787. John Francis Mercer was a Maryland Delegate to the Convention.
xxiii James Madison letter to Andrew Stevenson; 27 Nov. 1830
xxiv John Adams, Works, Vol. VI, p. 484, to John Taylor on April 15, 1814.
xxv Benjamin Rush, The Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1951), Vol. I, p. 523, to John Adams on July 21, 1789.
xxvi Ex Parte Mccardle, 74 U.S. 506 (Wall.) (1868)
xxvii Jefferson, Memoir, Vol. IV, p. 27, to Abigail Adams on September 11, 1804.
xxviii Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), Vol. IV, p. 317, to Judge Spencer Roane on September 6, 1819.
xxix Debates and Proceedings, Vol. I, p. 568, James Madison on June 18, 1789.
xxx U.S. Const. Amend. I.
xxxi U.S. Const. Art. I, § 5, cl. 3.
xxxii William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler, Life, Journal, and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler (Cincinnati: Colin Robert Clarke & Co., 1888), Vol. II, p. 66, 119, letter to Joseph Torrey, January 4, 1802. Cutler meant that Jefferson attended church on January 3, 1802, for the first time as President. Bishop Claggett’s letter of February 18, 1801, already revealed that as Vice-President, Jefferson went to church services in the House.
xxxiii Jared Sparks, The Life of Governeur Morris (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832), Vol. III, p. 483, from his “Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France.”
xxxiv Constitutions (1813), p. 364, “An Ordinance of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio,” Article III.
xxxv James Wilson, The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, Bird Wilson, editor (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 104–106, “Of the General Principles of Law and Obligation.”>

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xxxvi John Adams, “On Private Revenge,” Boston Gazette, September 5, 1763.
xxxvii Washington’s farewell address.. New York, New York Public Library, 1935. pg. 105; 136. Courtesy of the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
xxxviii Noah Webster, The History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1832), pp. 336–337, ¶49.
xxxix Matthias Burnett, An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary Election, May 12, 1803, at 26-27 (Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1803).
xl Engel v. Vitale; 370 U.S. 421, 422 (1962).
xli U.S. Const. Amend. I.
xliiU.S. Const. Art. I, § 5, cl. 3.
xliii Compiled By Friends, Works of Fisher Ames 134 (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co., 1809).
xliv Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (January 1, 1802), in Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Writings 510 (Merril D. Peterson et al. eds., 1984) (1781).
xlv Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947).
xlvi Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, in Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Writings 510 (Merrill D. Peterson et al. eds., 1984) (1802): Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with solemn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
xlvii Engle v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962).
xlviii Letter to Dr. Joseph Priestly (Washington ed., 441).
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/foley-page?id=JCE1686>.
il Id.
l William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler, Life, Journal, and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler (Cincinnati: Colin Robert Clarke & Co., 1888), Vol. II, p. 66, 119, letter to Joseph Torrey, January 4, 1802. Cutler meant that Jefferson attended church on January 3, 1802, for the first time as President. Bishop Claggett’s letter of February 18, 1801, already revealed that as Vice-President, Jefferson went to church services in the House.

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Section One
1 formula
2 frequent recurrence
3 defend
4 assert
5 principles
6 moral and religious
7 God
8 country
9 families
10 great enemy
11 August 2, 1776
12 death warrant
13 Nathan Hale
14 earn
15 increased devotion
16 YOU (write YOUR name in this blank!)
17 Celebrate Freedom Week
18 knowing, perceive, defend, assert
19 quick start guide
20 identify, protect, preserve
21 original intent
22 amended
23 original text
24 original intent
25 principle
26 everyone
27 platform
28 smart

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Section Two
1 application of the principles
2 separate
3 Constitutional Acts
4 Enabling Acts
5 Organic Laws
6 Grievance Corollaries
7 articles of incorporation
8 by-laws
9 never
10 Richard Henry Lee
11 Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston
12 Delaware, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
13 Caesar Rodney
14 Self-evident Truths
15 Endowed by Our Creator
16 Consent of the Governed
17 The Pursuit of Happiness
18 liberty WITH God
19 liberty withOUT God
20 God to the King to the people
21 God
22 the people
23 government
24 give
25 take
26 basis of liberty
27 Benjamin
28 Locke
29 Blackstone
30 Montesquieu
31 The Bible

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Section Two (cont.)
32 John Wise
33 confusion and discontent
34 private property & free enterprise
35 ourselves
36 giving or refusing
37 wise decisions
38 Creator
39 limited government
40 government
41 Inalienable rights
42 rights
43 authority
44 protect
45 provide
46 prosperous
47 fixed moral
48 anarchy
49 consent
50 rights
51 moral law
52 change their government
53 from the people
54 copied
55 1,500
56 preached
57 pulpit
58 legally binding
59 4
60 2
61 8
62 1
63 Sec 8, Cl 12
64 Art 1, Sec 8, Cl 14
65 3rd Amendment
66 6th & 7th Amendments

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Section Three
1 big picture
2 legislative
3 two
4 judicial
5 individual welfare
6 God
7 Congress
8 President
9 Courts
10 States; Republic
11 Amendment Process
12 Debts, Supremacy, oath, no religious test
13 Ratification & Attestation
14 Bill of Rights
15 President (EC, dates, 2 terms, DC, incapacitation)
16 Judiciary (suits against states)
17 Congress (Sen elections, terms, pay raises)
18 End slavery & establish civil rights
19 Voting Rights (race, gender, $$$, age)
20 Income Tax
21 To drink or not to drink!
22 religion; speech; press; assembly; petition
23 right to bear arms
24 quartering of soldiers
25 searches & seizures
26 grand jury; double jeopardy; self-incrimination; due process; private property takings
27 speedy public jury trial; witnesses; attorney

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Section Three (cont.)
28 civil jury trial & common law
29 excessive fines & bail; cruel & unusual punishment
30 individual rights NOT enumerated
31 federal powers limited/enumerated; rest left to states/people
32 22nd
33 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34 state
35 state
36 vote for president
37 17th
38 U.S. Senators
39 2nd
40 Greg Watson
41 applies
42 minority
43 participate
44 18th
45 groups
46 individuals
47 rights
48 people
49 states
50 House of Representatives
51 home
52 foreign
53 four
54 23
55 can do
56 cannot do

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Section Four
1 limited government
2 moral law
3 jurisdictional
4 promote and support
5 big to fail
6 “How many people live here?”
7 federal government
8 federal government
9 states
10 to itself
11 debts
12 defense
13 welfare
14 theft
15 general
16 local
17 one
18 regular
19 foreign
20 states
21 Indian tribes
22 micro-manage
23 individual enterprise
24 distrust of power
25 levels of government
26 spirit

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Section Five
1 patent, copyright, trademark
2 price
3 quality
4 quality
5 price
6 price or quality
7 price and quality
8 limited jurisdiction
9 government’s role
10 embryonic stem cell
11 declare war
12 1784
13 mercenaries
14 foregoing
15 oppress the people
16 civilian
17 Washington
18 two years
19 ample reward
20 3%-6%
21 bottom up

Section Six
1 Noah Webster
2 education
3 government
4 election day sermon
5 faithfully executed
6 laws
7 men
8 themselves aside
9 president

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Section Six (cont.)
10 people
11 states
12 popular vote
13 sufficient vote
14 distribution
15 big cities
16 pure democracy
17 three
18 four
19 in the movies
20 Ronald Reagan
21 George W. Bush (43)
22 at least once
23 months
24 emergency situation
25 law
26 adjourn
27 Washington
28 Congress
29 passed
30 afraid of God
31 rewards and punishments
32 religious
33 Supreme Court
34 secular
35 die
36 able men who fear God
37 check and balance
38 Sherman
39 Washington
40 Pinckney
41 Madison

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Section Seven
1 evolution
2 all law
3 4
4 lifetime
5 as it existed
6 as they want it to be
7 taken control
8 lack of accountability
9 lifetime appointments
10 Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, & James Madison
11 Legislative
12 closest to the people
13 Judiciary
14 two branches
15 responsibility
16 Congress
17agenda
18 good behavior
19 try
20 contradicting
21 rudeness
22 high-handedness
23 bridle
24 majority
25 equal
26 each branch
27 legislature
28 court
29 impeachment
30 Noah Webster
31 scarecrow
32 hearings
33 impeached

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Section Eight
1 inalienable rights
2 take away
3 protect inalienable rights
4 one step
5 religion; speech; press; assembly; petition
6 nowhere
7 journal
8 One, Five
9 none
10 Thomas Jefferson
11 infringe
12 single national denomination
13 the U.S. Capitol
14 kneeling in prayer
15 “Forbid it, Almighty God!”
16 Abraham Baldwin
17 chaplain
18 American Bible Society
19 William Samuel Johnson
20 Maryland Bible Society
21 Gouverneur Morris
22 religion, morality
23 James Wilson
24 inalienable right
25 John Quincy Adams
26 religious conscience
27 believe
28 conscience
29 worship
30 religion
31 property
32 1640

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Section Nine
1 Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law
2 revealed Himself
3 Scriptures
4 violating
5 protect
6 militia
7 we the people
8 quartering of soldiers
9 prescribed by law
10 searches and seizures
11 military
12 regulations
13 compensation
14 speedy public jury trial
15 attorney
16 $20
17 jury nullification
18 bail
19 fines
20 cruel & unusual
21 religion and morality
22 enumerated
23 other parts
24 Declaration
25 end slavery
26 boundaries
27 first law
28 first law books
29 American jurisprudence
30 individual rights
31 James Wilson
32 persons, houses, papers, and effects
33 writs of assistance
34 public use
35 public purpose

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Section Ten
1 amend
2 passion
3 reason
4 the people
5 Five
6 two-thirds
7 three-fourths (38)
8 two-thirds (34)
9 three-fourths (38)
10 Constitution
11 state law
12 purpose
13 life
14 system
15 politicians
16 13
17 endanger
18 push back
19 this Constitution
20 recall
21 Woodrow Wilson

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Section Eleven
1 September 17th
2 90%
3 ambassador
4 incrementalism
5 check out or give up
6 use violence or intimidation
7 state nullification
8Alien and Sedition
9 proper authority
10 undermines
11 dangerous, anarchy
12 minority
13 majority
14 reverse course
15 courts
16 unconstitutional
17 George Washington
18 Vote
19 chosen
20 20
21 36
22 537
23 leaders
24 principles
25 candidates
26 actions
27 politician
28 patriot
29 Senators
30 state
31 support
32 republic

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33 amendment
34 live
35 did his part
36 read, study, teach, know, defend, assert
37 history