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For example, Episcopalians are extraordinarily well represented among the presidents compared to a current membership of about 2% of the population; this is partly because the Church of England, from which the Episcopal Church is derived, was the established church in some of the British Colonies (such as New York and Virginia) before the ...
University of Notre Dame Program in American Democracy a Matter of Faith (2005). online [permanent dead link ] Guth, James L., et al. "Religious influences in the 2004 presidential election." Presidential Studies Quarterly 36.2 (2006): 223-242. online
American Catholic Voter: Two Hundred Years Of Political Impact (2006) online; Moore, Edmund A. A Catholic Runs for President: The Campaign of 1928 (1956) Noll, Mark A. and Luke E. Harlow. Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present (2nd ed. 2007) online; Parsons, Margaret Sammon.
Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (79%), white mainline Protestants (67%), black Protestants (56%), Catholics (71%), and the religiously unaffiliated (62%) all agreed that religion was losing influence on American life; 53% of the total public said this was a bad thing, while just 10% see it as a good thing. [293]
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The Treaty of Tripoli was a treaty concluded between the US and Tripolitania submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, receiving ratification unanimously from the US Senate on June 7, 1797, and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797. The treaty was a routine diplomatic agreement but has attracted later ...
Throughout history presidents of the United States of America have been given some pretty unique gifts from their fellow world leaders. Gifts are given as a sign of respect and reflection of the ...
By RYAN GORMAN President Barack Obama set off a firestorm Thursday morning by comparing ISIS barbarity to the Crusades. Obama recalled the savagery carried out nearly 1,000 years ago in the name ...