[jwalsh07]

Hardly. Again, clear proof that the Founding Fathers looked all the way back to Roman practices.

You mean like the Coliseum thing where they fed Christians to the lions? I think they took a pass on that one.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Thank goodness the Founding Fathers were wise enough to evaluate history and draw lessons from it, as is reflected in their contemporaneous writings. However there is little evidence they based their thinking directly on the Bible.