National Reform Association (chartered 1864)

This article is about the Christian organization founded in 1864. For the land reform group founded in 1844, see National Reform Association (1844).

The National Reform Association (NRA), formerly known as the National Association to Secure the Religious Amendment of the United States Constitution, is an organization that seeks to introduce a Christian amendment to the U.S. Constitution in order to make the United States a Christian state.[1][2] Founded in 1864, the National Reform Association included representatives from eleven Christian denominations as well as the official support of a number of Churches.[1] It publishes a magazine called The Christian Statesman.[3]

  1. ^ a b Miller, Randall M.; Stout, Harry S.; Wilson, Charles Reagan (1998). Religion and the American Civil War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199923663.
  2. ^ Beck, Luke (2018). Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution: Origins and Future. Routledge. ISBN 9781351257749. The National Reform Association's organisational constitution stated that the Association's purpose was "To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the United states as will declare the nation's allegiance to Jesus Christ, and its acceptance of the moral laws of the Christian religion, and so indicate that this is a Christian nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land.
  3. ^ Bodnar, John E. (1996). Bonds of Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism. Princeton University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780691043968.