David Brewer, A Justice Of The United States ...  PRO

David Brewer, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, gave the court’s opinion in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States: “Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian. While because of a general recognition of this truth the question has seldom been presented to the courts, yet we find that in Updegraph vs. the Commonwealth, it was decided that, Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law. And in the people vs. Ruggles, Chancellor Kent, speaking as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said: The people of this state, in common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice. We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or...