American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

John Tyler (March 29, 1790-January 18, 1862) was the 10th President of the United States, 1841-45, responsible for the Annexation of Texas, 1844, the city of Tyler, Texas, being his namesake; the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842, ending the border disputes with Canada; joint U.S.-British naval patrols off the African coast to suppress the slave trade; and the United States' first commercial trade treaty with China; Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, 1860; married Julia Gardiner, 1844, after death of first wife; Vice-President under William Henry Harrison, 1841, being the first to assume the Presidency at the death of a President;...

Georgia Constitution (1789): <ARTICLE 4, SECTION 5: All persons shall have the free exercise of religion, without being obligated to contribute to the support of any religion but their own.> 1789GA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1789GA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Constitution, 1789.

North Carolina (November 21, 1789) was the 12th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of North Carolina, adopted 1776, stated: <Article XIX. That all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience.> 1789NC001 <Article XXXII. That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or...

United States Congress Proclamation (September 25, 1789) Congress unanimously approved a resolution asking President George Washington to issue a Proclamation of a National Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer: <Friday, September 25, [1789]. Day of Thanksgiving. Resolved. That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he recommend to the people of the United States a day of public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a constitution...

United States Congress (September 25, 1789) voted on the final version of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment states: <Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.> 1789US019 The initial draft of the first amendment was made by James Madison, of Virginia, on June 8, 1789. His wording was: <The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in...