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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....that's WHY slavery was allowed, because the "little people in the South were the slave owners! LOL

All of the "little people" texted Jefferson and told him what to write! ROTFLMSO !

You imagine that EVERYONE back then was "holy", behaved well, and believe whatever the bleeding hell you do? You're delusional! Franklin was a lousy husband and worse father. Jefferson was a spendthrift...on money he didn't have and expected his friend to pay his bills, Poor Hamilton was seduced and then blackmailed, Burr was a very nasty POS, and those "little people", whose lives you really don't know about...were just like people of today. Man doesn't change, only technology changes!

You're imagining things, wildly assuming that I know or don't know certain things, or think certain things that are just things that you've made up. "(I) imagine that everyone back then was 'holy'?" Of course not. I've imagined no such thing, nor the other things you erroneously claim that I have.

Do you think, too, you're the only one who knows about the personal lives of Jefferson, Franklin, etc?

And then, you argue about tangential things that aren't even relevant to what talking about, and that I'm not arguing with you about.

And your lack of acknowledgement of certain things doesn't make them any less true. Like somehow because people couldn't text Jefferson, somehow public opinion and the lives and beliefs of the ordinary people didn't matter and didn't figure into the form of this nation's government.

To go back to religious freedom, it existed to some extent in other colonies before the Revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_the_United_States#Colonial_precedents

And once again, considering all the different Christian denominations in the colonies, and their history of often coming into conflict, how was the decision to protect them all by not establishing one as the state religion not just a common sense decision and the path of least resistance?