Excerpt from The Second Declaration of Independence: Or a Suggested Emancipation Proclamation From the Liquor Traffic The Declaration of Independence, the Federal Constitution, and the several state constitutions are based upon the principles of the theistic theory of government. Daniel Webster said, This Country can exist based only on the principles Of the Christian religion. We acknowledge Christ in nearly every book that is printed and on nearly every tomb stone. Saul of Tarsus, the greatest lawyer that was ever born, said, Let every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. We do not have to be lawyers to comprehend the fact that so long as we acknowledge God as the Supreme Being, we have no right to put upon the statute books any laws that are contrary to His laws. God holds a nation responsible for the commission of a sin, just as much as He does an individual. A nation has no more right to commit a sin than has an individual. As God cannot punish nations for their sins in the hereafter, He pun ishes national sins by national calamities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.