Sacred Documents

            The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is the fact that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are both spiritual documents. They were written by God-fearing men for people who believe in God and are totally inadequate for governing any other people.

            John Adams, the second President of the United States, clearly saw the Constitution as a sacred document written for God-fearing people. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” 

            Adams is not the only leader of this nation to consider the founding documents to be sacred. Bill Federer posted an interesting article about how President Calvin Coolidge foresaw the possibility of the Deep State crisis that our nation is reeling from today. The entire article is interesting, but I will only share what Coolidge said about the Declaration of Independence. 

Calvin Coolidge gave insight into America’s success at maintaining order in his address at the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 5, 1926: “The principles … which went into the Declaration of Independence … are found in … the sermons … of the early colonial clergy who were earnestly undertaking to instruct their congregations in the great mystery of how to live. They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the divine image. … Placing every man on a plane where he acknowledged no superiors, where no one possessed any right to rule over him, he must inevitably choose his own rulers through a system of self-government. … In order that they might have freedom to express these thoughts and opportunity to put them into action, whole congregations with their pastors migrated to the colonies. …”

            Coolidge concluded: “The Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. … Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man – these are … ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.”

            The progressive movement started about the time that Coolidge was the President. He recognized the evil ideas and plans of the progressives and tried to warn Americans. Now we are reaping the results brought by the progressives and their Communist/Socialist allies into our national government. There are secret combinations trying to destroy our constitutional way of life. The silent coup of the Deep State was an attempt to hide their evil actions.

            The Constitution will not fail, but it is in danger. Americans may be forced to go through another Civil War to preserve it, but it will stand. I am grateful for Americans, such as Donald Trump and Bill Barr, who are willing to stand up to the bullying progressives. I hope and pray that they will be able to preserve our Republic without the need for bloodshed.