We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other
John Adams
link to the entire letter
https://founders.archives.gov/docume.../99-02-02-3102
We have stepped way over that line.
We are no longer the kind of "people" that Adams described in his letter.
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