4. All Powerful Bureaucracy
• Cabinet Positions
• Various Agencies
• Advisors
• White House Staffers
• Other:
– Lobbyists
– The Media
– The Public
5. • Major Campaign Promises
• Military Actions
• Issues after a National Crisis
6. “We believe faith and freedom must be our
guiding stars, for they show us truth, they
make us brave, give us hope, and leave us
wiser than we were.”
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10. “God would tell me, "George, go and fight
those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did,
and then God would tell me, "George, go
and end the tyranny in Iraq ." And I did.”
13. “There’s no way I could ever separate my
Christian belief from my obligations as a naval
officer, as a governor or as a President”
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16. “It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the
Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his
fabulous Ark.”
17. “So it is apparently necessary for me to state
once again- not what kind of church I believe
in, for that should be important only to me-
but what kind of America I believe in.”
Editor's Notes
Established with the signing of the constitution in 1789. Const provides for a separation of church and state. Duties of the President: Commander in Chief and Head of State (very rare for global postictal structures).
He thought God saved him during the 1981 assn. attempt on his life to fulfill a greater purpose
John Winthrop’s shining city on a hill. Reagan used this ideology to fight communism during the Cold War
The first time Bush used the veto (5 ½ years in). He said it crossed moral boundaries set by faith
Carter upheld Roe, but privately struggled with the religious aspect of it
Obama defied church doctrine when he became the first president to call for same sex marriage equality.