[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Sorry but that is not correct:

Article. VII.

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. 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 In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,

[arasina]

Good catch, HC.

[Strategerist]

That's at the very end and is essentially a boilerplate "In the year of Our Lord."...that's why I said "not in the Preamble or the Body."

Face it, it jumps out of you that the Preamble doesn't mention God or religion in the slightest, considering the time it was written.

It clearly was a very deliberate decision to omit it.

[billbears]

Actually there is a specific reason for that. The Framers did not mention God as prevalent in the nation's Constitution because they were concerned about the dangers of a national religion and they felt that the states, sovereign at the time, would only elect good Christian men to office. The states were free to establish state denominations, which some did, but there was not to be a national denomination. They assumed, wrongly, that this nation by default would be a Christian nation because the separate and sovereign states would do their duty.

Of course this relies on federalism to some extent and we know full well what the Republican party did to that concept