Welcome to Call to Decision 

 American Minute with Bill Federer

 June 21

 The U.S. Constitution went into effect JUNE 21, 1788, when New
 Hampshire became the 9th state to ratified it.

 The 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution consisted of: 26
 Episcopalians, 11 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2
 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 2 Quakers and 1 Deist
 - Dr. Franklin, who called for prayer during the Constitutional
 Convention, June 28, 1787:

 "I therefore beg leave to move - that henceforth prayers imploring
 the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be
 held in this Assembly every morning."

 The Journal of the U.S. House of Representatives, March 27, 1854,
 recorded the unanimous vote of the 33rd Congress to print Congressman
 James Meacham's report, which stated:

 "At the adoption of the Constitution, we believe every State -
 certainly 10 of the 13 - provided as regularly for the support of the
 Church as for the support of the Government...

 Down to the Revolution, every colony did sustain religion in some
 form. It was deemed peculiarly proper that the religion of liberty
 should be upheld by a free people."

 Congressman Meacham concluded:

 "Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any
 attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been
 strangled in its cradle."