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To: qam1
Besides the 18th and 22nd Amendments, what part of our Constitution comes from the Bible?

All of it. It even says so at the end.

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth

42 posted on 02/12/2015 10:39:44 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

That’s stretching it a bit.

So if someone writes A.D. on a contract, the contract comes from the Bible?

One great thing about our Founding Fathers is that, while they were deeply religious, they understood the importance of allowing the worship of religions that weren’t Episcopal in nature.


63 posted on 02/12/2015 10:56:34 AM PST by ReganDude (Give me liberty or give me death!! Cruz 2016!!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Good point.


71 posted on 02/12/2015 11:03:31 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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