HCR3020 would have urged North Dakota to “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ.”
The House failed to adopt HCR3020 on February 18, 2025, by a vote of 31 to 59. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this resolution would have reaffirmed America’s Christian heritage. Prior to the North Dakota Constitutional Convention in 1889, which recorded “the Lord, Jesus Christ as the ruler of nations,” the Continental Congress in 1777, echoing the Mayflower Compact, called “for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom” of “Jesus Christ.” Moreover, John Adams, a delegate to the Continental Congress, remarked that the Founding Fathers achieved "Independence" based on the “general Principles of Christianity.” Notably, the U.S. Constitution attaches itself to the Declaration of Independence using the words “in the Year of our Lord.” There can and should be no doubt as to why the U.S. Supreme Court in 1892, in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, unanimously determined that America “is a Christian nation.”
