The Founding Fathers: What Did They Really Say?

Mat Clark

Description

Rarely used historical letters and documents directly from the National Archives and the Library of Congress reveal the thoughts and the hopes for their new nation.
These men and women turned to God in the darkest days of the American Revolution, and they turned to God for His help to preserve a fragile, newly created nation.
An attention grabbing, detailed narrative book that takes the reader into the details of founding principles of the United States of America from the very words of the founding fathers.
This book tells the true story through historical documents, personal letters, and their personal diaries.
Many of these historical documents are rarely or never used to tell the story of the founding principles of the United States.

Sujets

• Histoire
• List of Presidents of the United States
• American Revolution
• History
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665742863
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Founding Fathers: WHAT DID THEY REALLY SAY?
 
EVIDENCE THAT THE US WAS FOUNDED ON GOD & CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES
 
 
 
MAT CLARK
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2023 Mat Clark.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-4285-6 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023907519
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 04/28/2023
CONTENTS
Part 1Our Founding Documents
Part 2God and Country
Part 3The Treaties With Pirates
Part 4Early American Education
Part 5Separation of Church and State
Part 6State Constitutions
Part 7In God We Trust
Part 8Faith in God During the American Revolution
Part 9Is the United States of America A Christian Nation?
Part 10The Preamble and Posterity
 
“The general Principles, on which the Fathers Atchieved Independence, were the only Principles in which, that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their Address, or by me in my Answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all those Sects were Un ited”
John Adams, 1813
 
 
 
 
“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him for preserving documents relating to the history of our cou ntry.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1823
OPENING COMMENTS
Principles: Not Religion, Not Denominati onal
The Founding Fathers are a very misunderstood group of men from a period in human history that no person living today could ever relate to. The period in which the founding of the United States of America took place was a time of turmoil and the testing of loyalties, friendships and family ties.
Normally these types of ties bind people together forever but in the case of the Founders those ties were tested; some ties were strengthened, and some ties were stretched to the point that those very strong ties were broken.
The Founding Fathers did not create this nation on religion; they founded this nation on God and Christian principles.
The men and women who were there before, during, and after the establishment of the United States of America belonged to different congregations among the various Protestant and Catholic churches in the towns and villages where they lived.
These men who created a new nation, the United States of America, invoked God into the fabric of this nation.
Among those principles is the right to live freely without government infringement on our God-given rights.
The Founders grew weary of their king trampling on those rights; they no longer viewed King George III as a monarch who represented God and in their eyes a king who no longer represented the authority of God was not a king of men.
The most important things that we can remember about the Founders were that they knew who they were, and their strength was their unfaltering principles. There was a knowledge and acceptance on their part that if they failed to deliver liberty and freedom from the clutches of King George III that they would all either die a terrible death or be forced into exile somewhere in the world. To go into self-exile and remain unrecognized would have been nearly impossible if the Crown were to hunt for them because England controlled most of the civilized world and becoming anonymous would have been a tricky feat.
It is because the Founders knew who they were, and they had unfaltering principles which gave them the strength and resolve to endure the darkest days of the Revolutionary War and to see their fight for independence through to success. There are so many myths and misinformation spread throughout the world today about the Founders and who they really were and what formed their beliefs.
Some people claim that the Founders were deists who did not truly embrace the belief in the Christian God in the Holy Bible, the divinity of God’s Son, Jesus Christ nor that the Founders saw the hand of God in the founding of the United States.
Some people claim that several of the Founders absolutely did not believe in God.
These allegations are false.
These groups of people have spread their misinformation in their attempts to revise history and remove the truth from public knowledge. This book intends to reverse the misinformation with facts.
This book will use legitimate documentation held in various archives to share those facts. Founding documents, speeches, letters, Presidential proclamations and other documents of fact will be used to tell the truth.
Those who disagree that this nation was founded UPON the principle teachings of Jesus and that the Founders proclaimed the United States as a nation gifted to people by God are welcome to continue believing as they choose to believe…but through this book the truth will be told.
This book is the fulfillment of my wish to share the words of the Founders concerning the founding of this nation, its intent and design to anyone who wishes to know the truth about the United States of America.
This book is not an all-inclusive book of facts but rather a starter book for people in search of the truth of the founding of this nation.
This book is dedicated to the sacrifices and in the memory of the Founding Fathers and what they really said.
The falsehoods and lies perpetrated by those whose goal is to pervert the real truth about the founding of this nation will not be allowed to go unchallenged. The historical documentation presented in this book and in its accurate context will prove that this nation was founded upon the Christian principles of the Founders and the intended influence of those principles upon this nation.
Here is the truth.
Part One

OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS
DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP ARMS
Declaration on Taking Arms; July 6, 1775
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1775
(First D raft)
The large advances strides of late taken by the legislature of Great Britain towards establishing in over these colonies their absolute rule, and the hardiness of their present attempt to effect by force of arms what by law or right they could never effect, render it necessary for us also to shift change the ground of opposition and to close with their last appeal from reason to arms. And as it behaves those who are called to this great decision to be assured that their cause is approved before supreme reason, so is it of great avail that it’s justice be made known to the world whose prayers cannot be wanting intercessions affections will ever be favorable to a people take part with those encountering oppression. Our forefathers, inhabitants of the island of Gr. Britain harassed having there vainly long endeavored to bear up against the evils of misrule, left their native land to seek on these shores a residence for civil and religious freedom. At the expense of their blood, with to the less ruin of their fortunes, with the relinquishment of everything a quiet and comfortable in life, they effected settlements in the inhospitable wilds of America; they there established civil societies under with various forms of constitution, but possessing all, what is inherent in all, the full and perfect powers of legislation. To continue their connection with the friends whom they had left and but loved they arranged themselves by charters of compact under the same one common king who became the thro’ whom union was ensured to the multiplied who thus became the control link uniting of union between the several parts of the empire. Some occasional assumptions of power by the part. of Gr. Brit. however foreign and unknown to unacknowledged by the constitution we had formed of our governments were finally acquiesced in thro’ the warmth of affection. Proceeding thus in the fullness of mutual harmony and confidence both parts of the empire increased in population and in wealth with a rapidity unknown in the history of man. The various soils political institutions of America, it’s various climes soils and climates opening sure certain resource to the unfortunate and to the enterprising of all every country where and ensured to them the acquisition and free possession of property. Great Britain too acquired a lustre and a weight in the political system among the powers of the world earth which it is thought her internal resources could never have given her. To the communication of the wealth and the power of the several parts of the whole every part of the empire we may surely ascribe in some measure surely ascribe the illustrious character she sustained thro’ her last European war and its successful event. At the close of that war however Gr. Britain having subdued all her foes she took up the unfortunate idea of subduing her friends also. Her parliament then for the first time ass