American Minute with Bill Federer

American Minute with Bill Federer

June 21

The U.S. Constitution went into effect JUNE 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratified it.

The 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution consisted of:

26 Episcopalian Christians,

11 Presbyterian Christians,

7 Congregationalist Christians,

2 Lutheran Christians,

2 Dutch Reformed Christians,

2 Methodist Christians,

2 Quaker Christians,

2 Roman Catholics Christians

and 1 Deist Christian - Dr. Franklin, who called for prayer during the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787:

"God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.'...

I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel...

I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business."

Ben Franklin signed Pennsylvania's Constitution, Sept. 28, 1776, which stated:

"Each member, before he takes his seat, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, viz: I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked.

And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration."

The Journal of the U.S. House of Representatives, March 27, 1854, recorded the unanimous vote of the 33rd Congress to print Congressman James Meacham's report, which stated:

"At the adoption of the Constitution, we believe every State - certainly 10 of the 13 - provided as regularly for the support of the Church as for the support of the Government...

Down to the Revolution, every colony did sustain religion in some form. It was deemed peculiarly proper that the religion of liberty should be upheld by a free people."

Congressman Meacham concluded:

"Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle."

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