[jcb1379]

I actually have read the things that inspired the Constitution. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Rousseau's The Social Contract. I've also read the Constitution. Only says "Lord" once, and it is in closing and in reference to the date on which the Constitution was signed. That's it. No "Creator," no "God," nothing of the sort.

The Constitution is SIMPLY a document that describes what our government would look like, what would constitute the government of the United States of America. Not a guide for morals, not a social indicator of belief, a blueprint for the government.

[pollyannaish]

LOL. This thread is starting to feel like being in school again. I remember so many years of plowing my way through this stuff. Woo-hoo! Western Thought.

Good post.

[I got the rope]

I think you are being silly.

the Preamble

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

There is no such concept in Islam. The very word blessings speaks of a divine nature which come from the God of the Bible. Not allah.

It comes from Psalms: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."

[Stark_GOP]

Show me were the word "Democracy" appears in the Constitution.