John Adams was the First Vice President of the New United States of America, serving under the Father of Our Country, George Washington. When Washington refused to serve a third term as President, John Adams was elected President. He served only one term.

In his Inaugural Address John Adams shared his vision for America as a “City on a Hill,” to be admired by every Nation of the Earth as a beacon for liberty and freedom. Adams advocated the support of “every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all people. [It is] the only means of preserving our Constitition.”

In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned us that religion and morality are indispensible supports to our Nation’s political properity.

Our current political prosperity seems now to be floundering. Perhaps the pendulum for separation of Church and State has swung too far. Maybe virtue, religion, and morality need to be propagated more effectively in our schools, colleges, universities, acadamies, and other institutions, in order to perserve our Nation’s political prosperity. We should listen to our founding Presidents.

The First Amendment to the Constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” it doesn’t prohibit Americans from being religous and virtuous people. Our founders thought the propagation of religion and virtue was required to perserved our Nation’s political prosperity.