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AN INADEQUATE CONSTITUTION

For most of our history we have remained a religious people. From the very first moment that Americans officially declared themselves before the world to be one people, they appealed to the “Creator” and the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” From the brave pilgrims who left their homeland in pursuit of religious liberty to the courageous men and women who struggled to win the Revolutionary War, the first Americans never abandoned their faith in God as a provider of instruction and sustenance.

One of [William Bennett’s] favorite—and surprising—examples of this rock-solid faith involves Benjamin Franklin, easily the most irreverent of the Founders. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the delegates reached an impasse, threatening an end to their efforts to construct a more secure union. Franklin’s solution was to ask his fellow delegates to pray for “the...

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