Four U.S. supreme Court Cases Describing America as a “Christian Nation” (1844-1931)

In 1892, Justice Josiah David Brewer writing in Church of the Holy Trinity vs. U.S., the unanimous supreme Court decision which has never been overturned, held as a matter of law, fact, and history that

“…this is a Christian nation,” because our laws and public institutions are founded on Biblical principles from the Old and New Testaments. Brewer continues, “this is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation…we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth…this is a Christian nation.”

There is an official foundation of American law and civil government; a Canon if you will which must include consideration of at least four separate decisions of the U.S. supreme Court which assert that the United States is in law, fact and history and should thus properly be termed officially a “Christian Nation” because of the foundation of our laws upon principles of the Ten Commandments and the Old and New Testaments. Those Court decisions include Vidal v. Girard’s Executors, 2 How. 127, 197-199 (1844) [cited in Marsh v. Chambers and Abinton v. Schempp]; Mormon Church v. United States, 136 U.S. 1 (1889), [also cited in Abington v. Schempp]; Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892); and U.S. v. MacIntosh 283 U.S. 605 (1931).

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