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The U.S. Founding Fathers: Their Religious Beliefs
Although the United States of America Declaration of Independence mentioned “Nature’s God” and the “Creator,” the Constitution made no reference to a divine being, Christian or otherwise, and the First Amendment explicitly forbid the establishment of any official church or creed….
One quasi-religious conviction they all shared, however, was a discernible obsession with living on in the memory of posterity.
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The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution - Image via Wikipedia
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The Constitution in its main body forbids titles of nobility (I, 9) and religious tests for officeholding (VI)
Under the First Amendment, Congress can make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise, or abridging freedom of speech or press or the right to assemble and petition for redress of grievances.
The Bill of Rights derives from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), the colonial struggle against king and Parliament, and a gradually broadening concept of equality among the American people. Virginia‘s 1776 Declaration of Rights, drafted chiefly by George Mason, was a notable forerunner.
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