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To: chesley

No, St. Thomas Aquinas wasn’t an American. I never said he was. He DID, however, have a profound impact on the political and legal theory of our founding fathers.


43 posted on 09/08/2009 11:50:23 AM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: dangus

Well, that was not the issue under dispute, as I understand it. However, neither do I dispute that the thinkers that came before had an influence on the the ideas of the founding fathers. Even Catholic, Jewsih, and possibly even Muslim ones.

And, of course, we all know that the Founders got their ideas about Constitutional governance from the Iroquois. ;). But what was the proportion of Iroquois, or any Native Americans for that matter, among them?

The fact is, that the vast majority of them were of a British Protestant background, and that is my point.


44 posted on 09/08/2009 12:34:19 PM PDT by chesley ("Hate" -- You wouldn't understand; it's a leftist thing)
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