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Household Gods : The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
\"Household Gods is a 300-year story of religious exploration and discovery, as told by early America's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, as they navigated faith and doubt in the growing nation--and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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John Adams Confronts Quakers and Baptists during the Revolution: A Paradox of the Quest for Liberty
Scherr talks about John Adams, Isaac Backus, and Israel Pemberton at the First Continental Congress in Aug 1774. He also shares Adams' views of the Friends and his attack on Quaker pacifism.
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The Roots of John Adams's Political Science
In 1630, English lawyer John Winthrop (1588-1649) addressed the company bound for the new world aboard the Arbella. Their purpose, he explained, was to establish a society that would facilitate their highest ends. They consented to one another and covenanted with God to form a civil and ecclesiastical government to secure such a society. This society was the end toward which the government of the covenanted community must pilot and for which it must wisely navigate the perils of selfishness and injustice, interestingly, nearly the whole of Winthrop's speech is concerned with love and the requisites of a just society. Here, Kitch explores the roots of John Adams's political science.
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“A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion”: John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment
Witte explores John Adams's model of religious liberty, as it was adopted and adapted in Massachusetts in the 16th- and 17th-centuries. The 1780 Massachusetts Constitution, which Adams drafted largely, struck a balance between the establishment of one public religion and the freedom of all private religions.
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America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
At the first meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, John Adams recalled many years later, a motion to open the gathering with prayer \"was opposed because they were so divided in religious sentiments - some were Episcopalians, some Quakers, some Anabaptists, some Presbyterians, and some Congregationalists -so that they could not join in the same act of worship.\" Samuel Adams, John Adams's cousin and a firebrand from Boston, finally rose and broke the deadlock. Pronouncing himself \"no bigot,\" he allowed that he \"could hear a prayer from any gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country.\"
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Wisdom From The Founding Rationalists; What Jefferson and Adams Might Tell Mitt Romney
Politicians and commentators have suggested that for the Founders, the very idea of freedom was God-given -- or, as the Declaration of Independence puts it, that human beings are \"endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.\"
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The Founders and the Torah
I have long thought that historians, political theorists and lawyers pay far too much attention to the least religious founders, like Jefferson, to the neglect of the other 90-plus who signed either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution or both. They equally neglect the scores of thousands of actual voters who ratified the Constitution, whose views were far more like those expressed above by [John Adams] than like Jefferson's. By his own admission, Jefferson kept his irreligious views silent, lest they cost him the presidency and his good reputation, even though by today's standards his beliefs in a divine judge and governor of the universe would disqualify him as a secularist. Ben Franklin proposed as a motto of the Republic ''Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.'' It fit the American circumstance. The signers of the Declaration, after all, were committing treason. They needed some sort of moral warrant. They also needed hope that they could avoid the hangman's noose; they faced the most powerful army and navy in the world. It helped that they believed that Providence would assist them and that Providence had created the world so that liberty would in the end prevail. For without liberty, how could the Creator, who desired the friendship of free women and men rather than the worship of slaves, fulfill his eternal purposes?
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July 4th: The birthday of America
John Adams believed that the Fourth of July should become a religious holiday, a day when we remembered God's hand in deliverance and a day of religious activities when we committed ourselves to Him in \"solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.\" Such was the spirit of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of those who led it, evidenced even further in the words of John Quincy Adams (the sixth President and eldest son of John Adams), one who was deeply involved in the activities of the Revolution...
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