The American constitutional tradition is not merely a legal one. Symbolic politics around the Founding have underpinned the great institutional and political upheavals of American history, and continue to exert a powerful influence over the electorate. However, a great deal of scholarly debate has surrounded the role of Christian and religious symbolism in political discourse. This article carries out a qualitative analysis of the symbolic politics of the American Founding as filtered through three JudeoChristian imageries: ‘The Holy Land’, ‘God’s work’ and the ‘Original Sin’ motifs. Indeed, during the great ‘constitutional moments’ of American political history (to use Bruce Ackerman’s terminology), it has been the various Judeo-Christian representations of the Founding evoked to narrate, conceptualise and justify a plethora of social, economic and political agendas. The quasi-sacral narratives, uses and representations of the American Founding still continue to constitute a deeply contested symbolic space, one that is fertile soil for solidarity and civic trust, but also for polarisation and manipulation.