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We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

John Adams
People, Moral, Constitution

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

John Adams
Effort, World, Constitution
John Adams (1794). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778”, p.506

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

John Adams
Blessing, Government, Constitution
John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.193