In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: "We now have a few words of the Jewsof the United States in general ... The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America ... They ... in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe."
Later, Astronaut James Irwin became an evangelical minister. Of his experience of walking on the moon, he stated: "I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before ... Being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact upon my life. Before I entered space with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, I was ... a silent Christian, but I feel the Lord sent me to the moon so I could return to the earth and share His Son, Jesus Christ." He added: “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.”
Lincoln stated: "... I locked the door, and got down on my knees before Almighty God, and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this was His war, and our cause His cause, but we couldn't stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God, that if He would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by Him ..."
The Articles of Confederation were an attempt to loosely knit the thirteen States together, while leaving most of the authority under each individual State's jurisdiction.
