In his first inaugural address in 1789, George Washington said he hoped "that the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality." John Adams added, "It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand." In a letter to the Massachusetts Militia, Adams also added, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People."
Washington and Adams were in essence saying that without religious freedom and absent public morality, the freedoms framed in the Constitution were merely window dressing.
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