Oct 11, 2011

For Whom Our Constitution Was Made


Lost Episodes | October 11, 2011


On October 11, 1798, President John Adams stated in a letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts:


"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 1


Other nations have copied our Constitution almost verbatim but have not enjoyed our success. John Adams gives us the reason. Our Constitution only works if “We the People” are moral and virtuous, which only results from religious principle and practice. John Adam’s statement on the Constitution is another lost episode in American history.


1 Source Citation: Charles Francis Adams, ed., The Works of John Adams – Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustration, 10 vols., (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1854), 9:228-229.

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