MASSACHUSETTS
GRAND JURY

(1802), appointed by Judge Nathaniel Freeman, defined:

The laws of the Christian system, as embraced by The Bible, must be respected as of high authority in all our courts and it cannot be thought improper for the officers of such government to acknowledge their obligation to be governed by its rule. …

[Our government] originating in the voluntary compact of a people who in that very instrument profess the Christian religion, it may be considered, not as republic Rome was, a Pagan, but a Christian republic.2179

The State of Massachusetts paid the salaries of the Congregational ministers in that state until 1833.2180