One Nation, Under God, Divisible
June, 2004
Few of the founders of the United States could properly be called religious men, while their wives, excepting the vivid Abigail Adams, are not often on record. In the Federalist Papers--the notes that James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton made during the selling of the Constitution to the people--religion and God are hardly mentioned. When the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as its initial 10 amendments, the first declared that "Congress shall make no law respecting an...
