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“…in the Federal convention were members who inveighed repeatedly against the growing extravagance of their countrymen. High life and high living sapped the moral fiber. Observe the fate of the later Romans! “Luxury with ten thousand evils in her train,” wrote Abigail Adams from London.”

“we do know that Article VI, after various refinements in committee, exacted from federal and state officers an oath to support the United States Constitution --- “but no religious Test,” shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.””

From “Miracle at Philadelphia” Catherina Drinker Bowen

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