What Is The American Proposition?

From John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and The American Proposition by David Wemhoff

Luce Delivers the American Proposition

Henry Luce, the son of a Presbyterian missionary, put his publishing might at the service of the American empire by touting the idea of America’s “adherence to the moral law” and the “American Holy Alliance with God” in a 500-word document that became known as the “Ridgefield Memorandum,” which committed Time, Inc. to teaching the world about the special relationship between God and America contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.[i]

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