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Mike Johnson: “We're quite literally the only nation, the first nation in…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Inside Washington with Speaker Mike Johnson and Pastor Greg Laurie

Published | Video Starts at 11:27

I mean, maybe the nation Israel. Except for Israel. Yeah. But apart from that, a nation that has such strong spiritual roots as America does, We're quite literally the only nation, the first nation in the world, that was founded upon a creed. as G.K. chesterton famously noted, the British statesman and the creed, he said, was listed with theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. (11:27–11:32)

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Asserts that the United States is the first nation founded upon a creed.

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