The morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon
Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of other
religions. In people whose manners are refined, and whose
morals have been elevated and inspired with a more enlarged
benevolence, it is by means of the Christian religion.
United States Supreme Court, 1811
Why may not the Bible, and especially the New
Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the
school? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so
clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
United States Supreme Court, 1844
The happiness of a people and the good order and
preservation of civil government essentially depend upon piety,
religion
and morality.
United States Supreme Court, 1892
Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary to
good government, the preservation of liberty, and the happiness of
mankind .
United States Supreme Court, 1892.
The morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon
Christianity, and not upon doctrines or worship of other religions.
United States Supreme Court, 1892
"It yet remains a problem to be solved in human
affairs whether any free government can be permanent where the public
worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the
policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape."
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Federal Committee's
Religion must be considered as the foundation on which
the whole structure rests. In this age there can be no
substitute for Christianity; the great conservative element
on which we must rely for the purity and permanence of free
institutions.
House Judiciary Committee, 1854
The great vital and conservative element in our system
is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine
truths of gospel of Jesus Christ.
House Judiciary Committee, 1854
State Courts
Offenses against religion and morality strikes at the
root of moral
obligation, and weaken the security of the social ties…..This First
Amendment declaration never meant to withdraw religion. And with
it the sanctions of moral and social
obligation from all consideration and notice of the law.
Supreme Court of New York, 1811
Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity tends
manifestly to the
dissolution of civil government, because it tends to corrupt the morals
of the people, and to destroy good order.
Supreme Court of New York, 1811
The destruction of morality renders the power of the
government invalid.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1815
A malicious intention, to vilify the Christian
religion and the scriptures, would prove a nursery of vice, a school
of preparation to qualify young men for the gallows, and young
women for the brothel, and there is not a skeptic of decent
manners and good morals, who would not consider such a common
nuisance and disgrace.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1824
No free government now exists in the world, unless
where Christianity is acknowledged, and is the religion of the
country. Christianity is part of the common law.
Its foundations are broad and strong and deep. It is the
purest system of morality and only stable support of all human
laws.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1824
Christianity has reference to the principles of right
and wrong; It is the foundation of those morals and manners upon
which our society is formed; it is their basis. Remove this and
they would fall. Morality has grown upon the
basis of Christianity.
Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1846
What constitutes the standard of good morals? Is
it not Christianity? There Certainly is none other. Say that
cannot be appealed to, and what would be good morals? The day of
moral virtue in which we live would, in an instant, if that standard
were abolished, lapse into the dark and murky night of immorality.
Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1846
