[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

So there's no intellectual connection between the American Revolution and the American Constitution. What have you been smoking?

I am sure you know that I did not say or imply any such thing. There is an intellectual connection between the American Revolution and the disputes of the Civil War, but that does not make them the same event.

[donh]

There is an intellectual connection between the American Revolution and the disputes of the Civil War, but that does not make them the same event.

Be that as it may, in regard to the question of what was on the minds of our founding fathers, the American Revolution and the production of the Bill of Rights are, indeed, the same event.