For over 300 yrs, America was officially described as a Christian nation, founded on Christian principles. There are over 300 court cases – both state and federal judiciaries – saying America’s a Christian nation. We have presidents (i.e. George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Hurbert Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and many others), governors, and state and federal legislators who affirmed this. Elias Boudinot, President of the Congress during the Revolution, acknowledged this, along with Signers of the Declaration such as Charles Carroll, John Hancock, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Rufus King, John Dickinson, Roger Sherman, and others. Leading jurists and legal minds like Samuel Chase (U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Signer of the Declaration), John Jay (Original Supreme Court Chief Justice), and Justices Joseph Story and James Kent, along with Zephaniah Swift (Author of America’s first legal text) believed America is a Christian nation. The U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Congress, State Supreme Courts, and State Legislatures are on record saying America is a Christian nation. And other great people such General William Eaton (Who led America in its first war following the American Revolution), Daniel Webster (the defender of the Constitution), Noah Webster (the school-master to America), Jedediah Morse (The father to American geography), and William H. McGuffey (Author of the famous McGuffey Readers) all confessed that America is a Christian nation. Plus, it was in all of our textbooks. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.

In “Church of Holy Trinity v. United States” (1892), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people…this is a Christian nation.” Why did the Court make this conclusion? Because, while this case was only 16 pages in the Court records, the Court provided 87 different historical precedents to support its conclusions, quoting the Founding Fathers and their acts, along with the acts of the Congress, the acts of the state governments. And, when the Court finished citing the 87 precedents, it stated that it could have cited many additional precedents, but that, certainly, 87 were sufficient to conclude that we were a Christian nation.