...rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of...human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution,...

...nation, and use the energy of those interests to offset and check one another. John Adams pointed out to the covenant context within which the Constitution..."We have no government armed with power capable of contendng with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for...

...culture of virtue" (141) sustained by religion. John Adams declared, in a celebrated statement, that ' 'we have no government armed with power capable of...religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other' ' (95). In his Farewell...

...made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "We have no government armed with power capable of...human passions unbridled by morality and religion," he stated in October 1798. 54 And Samuel Adams added, "Revelation assures us that 'Righteousness exalteth...

...stressed theistic natural law and the importance of Christianity in public life.37 Emphasizing that "we have no government armed with power capable of...human passions unbridled by morality and religion," he stated in 1798: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate...

...first year as vice-president under the new liberal constitutional regime, drew similar conclusions: "We have no government armed with power capable of...unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution," he wrote, "was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government...

...made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "We have no government armed with power capable of...human passions unbridled by morality and religion," he stated in October of 1798. 98 And Samuel Adams added, "Revelation assures us that 'righteousness...

...upon this nation.-" On October 11, 1798, President John Adams stated in his address to the military: We have no government armed with power capable of...human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a...

...without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics."74 Again from Adams in 1798: "We have no government armed with power capable of.... . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."75 Or Washington in his equally...

...Christian Ethics, 99. CHAPTER? CREATING A NARRATIVE FOR AMERICAN POPULAR CONSERVATISM: PAT ROBERTSON We have no government armed with power capable of.... . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams §32 INTRODUCTION...