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On Aug 7, 5:36 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> The creation of the United States of America represented a unique
> event in world history. Founded as a modern republic, it was rooted in
> the Bible, and one of its earliest tenets was religious tolerance. OfLet's see some support for this claim.
> I am most interested in quotations from Founders that fit a pattern of 'Book/Chapter/Verse is an important concept that translates in to Article, Section and Clause ideal'.
> The DoI represented something entirely new. It impugned the biblically consistent Divine Rights of Kings..
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses....
> -- John Adams, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" [1787-1788];
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