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American Minute with Bill Federer
September 17, 2010
"Done...the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD
one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven."
This is the last line of the U.S. Constitution.
A study by Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American Political Thought" published in American Political Science Review, 1984, revealed that after examining nearly 15,000 writings of the 55 writers of the Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and monographs, that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34 percent of all direct quotes made by the Founders. When indirect Bible citations were included, the percentage rose even higher.
Presiding over the Constitutional Convention was George Washington, who wrote ten days after his Presidential Inauguration to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 10, 1789:
"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the
Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to
preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any
ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my
signature to it."
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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