| Noah Webster invested his entire life into the task | | | | that may jeopardize this Christian Constitutional |
| of placing every aspect of life under the authority | | | | government. |
| of Jesus Christ. In his personal and family life he | | | | The early life of Noah Webster was dedicated to |
| ordered every activity by the principles of the | | | | building an educational system that would impart, |
| Word of God. Having graduated from Yale at | | | | "a love of virtue, patriotism, and religion", based |
| about the same time as the birth of America, he | | | | on scripture. These were the three characteristics |
| was burdened with the need to maintain America | | | | that he deemed as necessary to maintaining the |
| as a Christian Constitutional republic. He believed | | | | American Christian republic. He, like most |
| that in order to maintain liberty all ties with the old | | | | Americans of his time time "affirmed that the |
| world must be severed. It would require a | | | | principles of republican government have their |
| distinctly Christian education system to avoid | | | | origins in the Scriptures. |
| propagation of foreign philosophies of government | | | | |