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Bill Barr is not the first to link the survival of self-governance to religion.

Ignorance is dangerous.

Washington said “religion and morality” are “indispensable supports” to republican government.

Adams said the Constitution was “wholly inadequate” for non-religious people.
On collectivism, his cousin Samuel Adams said “schemes of leveling” are no different than the false promises of monarchy and “unconstitutional.”

The Constitution was designed for autonomous communities of religious individuals who believed in “the calling”, frugality and virtue.
It is truly impossible to understand how the Constitution conceived the American social contract w/o understanding the Protestant Ethic.

I mean really understand.

You must scour primary source materials and actually get to know them.

They were smarter, more virtuous than us.
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