John Quincy Adams, the Declaration, and America’s Christian Essence

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence, Americans must reflect diligently about the enduring meaning of that august document that set us on the path of becoming a truly free, independent, and self-governing people and nation. That task should be considerably aided by the recent publication of An Oration: John Quincy Adams’s Christian America, a beautifully designed volume that reproduces a 68-page speech that a seventy-year-old Adams delivered in Newburyport, Massachusetts on July 4, 1837.