Illinois Supreme Court (1883) Richmond v. Moore, 107 Ill. 429, 1883 WL 10319 (Ill.), 47 Am. Rep. 445 (Ill. 1883):
<Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. In this sense and to this extent, our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically Christian.> 1883ISC001
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Endnotes:
1883ISC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Illinois Supreme Court (1883) Richmond v. Moore, 107 Ill. 429, 1883 WL 10319 (Ill.), 47 Am.Rep. 445 (Ill. 1883). Stephen McDowell, America's Providential History (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Foundation, 1989), p. 178; Joseph P. Hester, Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002), p. 138l. "These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation." Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U. S. 457, 471 (1892). Justice David J. Brewer, The United States A Christian Nation (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1905, pp. 11-12): "This republic [the United States] is classified among the Christian nations of the world. It was so formally declared by the Supreme Court of the United States...Nevertheless, we constantly speak of this republic as a Christian nation - in fact, as the leading Christian nation of the world."