The two speeches below provide a little comic relief in the election drama! Romney’s Speech at the Al Smith Dinner 2012 Obama’s Speech at the Al Smith Dinner 2012 Share...
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HistoricWords Founding Fathers Post. Project: Presidents of the United States My Notes The letter below from James Madison, 4th Presidents of the United States, is an excellent treatise on Separation of Church and State. Mr. Madison starts by expressing his approbation of Congress appointing chaplains,...
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Thomas Lynch Jr. said, "I have a Letter from undoubted Authority that assures me that the destruction of the Parliamentary Army in America will certainly produce Peace and by another that the seizing Quebec will produce the same Effect. I have no doubt America stands now indebted to her General for the One and will before the Return of Spring for the other."
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George Wythe said, "Congress has resolved, that a just Account of the Hostilities committed by the ministerial Army and Navy, in America, since the month of March last, be collected, with proper Evidence of the Facts. ... It may be necessary for our Justification, in the Judgment of the People of Great Britain, and foreign Nations."
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Oliver Wolcott said, "A Revolution in Gover[n]ment ... is about to take Effect. May God grant a happy Establishment of it, and secuerety to the Rights of the People. If this Recommendation takes effect which undouptedly it will, There will be an instance Real not implyed or Ideal of a Goverment founded in Compacet Express and Clear Made in its Principles by the People at large."
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The Danbury Baptist Association wrote this letter to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson's reply is where the phrase Separation of Church and State comes from. The Danbury Baptist Association said, "The legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor."
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