A Miraculous Document Second Only To The Holy Bible

Common Sense Commentary:

After finishing the creation of our U.S. Constitution and circulating it to the 13 Colonies for adoption, the citizens of our young nation, like the framers, considered it to be a divine miracle of God.  There was so much difference and disagreement among the Colonies and people, that few expected the Continental Convention to succeed. 
But, by the grace of God, it not only succeeded, but produced the single most perfect such document ever devised by men.  The crowning achievement of those, our Founding Fathers was, they all gave God the glory. Here are some of their statements.

George Washington: "[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visible the finger of Providence (God) 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." "This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people ... No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression ... The balances arising from the distribution of the legislative, executive, and Judaical powers are the best that have [ever] been instituted."


Alexander Hamilton: " The establishment of the Constitution in time of profound peace, by the voluntary consent of a whole people, is a prodigy, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety."


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 prove in the end a blessing to all the nations of the earth."


John Adams: " [The Constitution] is ... the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen." "I first saw the Constitution of the United States ... I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adopted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed.... I have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the Constitution .... What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?"


Benjamin Rush: "Doctor Rush then proceeded to consider the origin of the proposed [constitution], and fairly deducted 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 a passage to the children of Israel, or had fulminated the ten Commandments from Mount Sinai."



Charles Pinckney: "Nothing less that that superintending hand of Providence (God)  that so miraculously carried us through the war ... could have brought it [the Constitution] about."


James Wilson: " Governments, in general, have been the result of force, or fraud, and accident. After a period of six thousand years has elapsed since the creation, the United States exhibit to the world the first instance, as far as we can learn, of a nation, unattached by external force, unconvulsed by domestic insurrections, assembling voluntary, deliberating fully, and deciding calmly concerning that system of government under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live."


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 must 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."


Into and out of these men's hearts and minds, God channeled his will for this new nation which had begun with the arrival of Christians seeking freedom to worship Him as they understood the Holy Bible did prescribe.  They fled the tyrannical political powers of Europe to find freedom ... and found it.  It is up to us, with God's help to preserve it. RB