America’s founding fathers recognized that theirs was a providential venture, a divinely guided effort to establish a nation under God.
While the Declaration of Independence starts by recognizing that our rights come from God, and not from rulers or governments, it ends with these words: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Establishing our country under this Mandate of Heaven was what made the American Revolution so historically significant.
What did the Founders mean by Providence?
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