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Mike Bost: “John Adams wrote that only a moral and religious people can self-govern. And amoral and immoral people have to have a…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
John Adams wrote that only a moral and religious people can self-govern. And amoral and immoral people have to have a different scheme altogether, because they will not voluntarily comply with the laws and rules that confront them, even the ones they don't like.
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Mike Bost
Republican · Illinois

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Bost reflects on the necessity of morality for self-governance.

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