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Check out what Charile Kirk said.
Our country was founded on common law.
Because the declaration only refers to God four times and the constitution doesn't refer to God at all and it only articulates the structure of government. So first of all, remember that we were a collection of states and colonies and you need to read the state constitutions before anything else. Nine out of 13 of the original states required you to be a Bible believing Christian to serve in government at the time of the founding. All 13 out of 13 required a declaration of faith. Nine out of 13 required you to be a Protestant except Maryland which was Catholic, which still required a declaration of faith. Almost every single one of the original state constitutions, Pennsylvania included, they had "I profess Lord and Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior" in the original state constitutions. You remember we're a collection of states before that.
Secondly, 55 out of 56 of the original signers of the declaration were Bible believing church attending Christians. So common law is inherited from Blackstone who was Christian. If the common law is an outgrowth of the scriptures. So let's go to three principles of common law. Presumption of innocence, due process, injury of your peers. All three are biblical principles wrapped into the ultimate biblical principle that you shall not favor justice if you are rich or poor which is Leviticus 19 right before most famous part of Leviticus 19 which is that you should love your neighbor as yourself but before that is that in the administration of justice you shall not favor the rich or the poor which is the idea of blind justice. We get that in the west which is incorporated also in the New Testament ideal neither slave nor Greek nor Jew you're all one in Jesus Christ. So you have the idea of human equality. These are all biblical ideas they're not enlightenment ideas which is they kind of get conflated at the time but more importantly than that they say that God was only mentioned four times in the declaration of independence. So that's a big deal. Okay. Laws of nature and nature's God. The last paragraph of the declaration reads as a prayer. It says we appeal to the supreme judge of the universe. Who's the judge of the universe? Jesus Christ as it says in Revelation that Jesus will judge the earth on his throne. This So in the declaration they were praying to Christ our Lord as a prayer very specifically.
Thirdly, as I said on stage yesterday, Deuteronomy was by far the most quoted book religious or non-religious in the time of the founding when they were putting together constitution more than John Locke more than Montesquieu more than Blackstone the book of Deuteronomy which talked about laws customs traditions it was most farewell address as he's you know about to say goodbye say hey good luck in Canaan guys here's how you should set up your form of government but finally and most importantly let's look at actually what the founders said John Adams in his said the constitution was only written for a moral religious people it was wholly inadequate for the people of any other the body politic of America was so Christian it was so Protestant that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ our Lord one of the reasons we're living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation but we have a Christian form of government and they're incompatible so you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population type amen and share this with a friend.