LIFE

    Is there a predominant culture in American history? If there is, how has it shaped our society? What cultures have contributed to our growth and in what ways? Looking into the past, can a society survive if it doesn't have a common, dominant culture?

    Are we a Christian nation? Were the founding fathers Christians? Does it matter?

    Samuel Adams stated,"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man."

    George Washington stated: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political posperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports......Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

    John Adams said: "...our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."

    Thomas Jefferson asked, "Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we haved removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are...the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?"

    Do these quotes have any relevance to American History?

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