Focusing on Constitutional Principles  www.cacp.info – # 641 – 10-14-06 – 151 – Donald Conkey

 

A Founders Quote: In 1824, John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, nominated by President George Washington, made the following statement regarding his belief in God and in his Son. Said Chief Justice Jay:  “In forming and settling my belief relative to the doctrines of Christianity, I adopted no articles from creeds but such only as, on careful examination, I found to be confirmed by the Bible. . . .  At a party in Paris, once, the question fell on religious matters. In the course of it, one of them asked me if I believed in Christ? I answered that I did, and that I thanked God that I did.” How different this belief is from the beliefs of recent Court Justices whose ruling are preventing today’s schools from teaching from the Declaration of Independence because it refers to “Nature’s God,” and to the “Supreme Judge of the World.”