American Values and Principles Part Two

Part Two: American Values and Principles
I know that it may be hard for many to believe, in a world where God is being put on trial everywhere in the U.S.A but the framers of the Constitution looked upon it as an event that was actually “influenced, guided, and governed” by the hand of God.
Benjamin Rush: “Doctor Rush then proceeded to consider the origin of the proposed Constitution, and fairly deduced it was from heaven, asserting that he as much believed the hand of God was employed in this work as that God had divided the Red Sea to give passage to the children of Israel, or had fulminated the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.”
Benjamin Franklin: “I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance as the framing of the Constitution…should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.”
James Madison: “The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted in the federal convention, and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it mush have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”
So what was it that the framers of the Constitution thought they had in this new document of ours?
George Washington: “The adoption of the Constitution will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it. The Constitution…approaches nearer to perfection than any government hitherto instituted among men.”
Thomas Jefferson: “The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had given them. The Constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men. May you and your contemporaries…preserve inviolate the Constitution, which, cherished in all its chastity and purity, will provide in the end a blessing to all nations of the earth.”
James Madison: “The happy union of these states is a wonder; their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world. Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either.
James Madison: “Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction…that there never was an assembly of men charged with a great and arduous trust who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787 to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system which should…best secure the permanent liberty and happiness of their country.”
Is anyone out there feeling more “American” reading the above quotes, more patriotic, perhaps getting a goose bump or two? Shedding a tear? Are we forgetting just what these amazing men did for us? At a great sacrifice to themselves I might add. Let’s see just how far we have come. Please watch the video from youtube below.