Beginning with the 4th of July celebrations last Friday, Americans commenced a year-long commemoration and celebration in anticipation of our Bisesquicentennial (the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s proclamation on July 4, 1776).
My hope and prayer is that Americans across this great country of ours will seize the strategic opportunity to emphasize the universal importance of the American Revolution, which produced unprecedented democratic principles for which America claimed universal application.
In many important ways, America’s Revolution, initiated by the Declaration of Independence, made America the first of a new kind of nation, one based on “the consent of the governed,” making governments accountable to their people.
Sadly, it has become clearer with each passing year that more and more Americans, especially in younger generations, are either unfamiliar with their nation’s important history or have rejected the lasting principles it produced.
Over the next twelve months, this column will periodically discuss one of those American founding principles in the hope of increasing knowledge and appreciation of our heritage and its continuing importance to both our nation and the world.
Today, I want to discuss freedom of religion. The eventual implementation of the founding ideals of the American Revolution was the United States Constitution, with the Bill of Rights attached. The First Amendment constitutionally guarantees the basic human rights essential to true freedom:
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