Its wild to me that Lumpers just can't admit that the founders were heavily influenced by judeo-christian principles.
#58 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT
Thank you for your input Commie Spy. I will file it appropriately.
Of course the Abrahamic religions "influenced" the founders. They still "influence" us today. It "influenced " everyone of that era whether they liked it or not. Especially the Natives wherever they were encountered and enslaved.
It influenced the founders to separate that influence from the business of governance. That being part of the great experiment we are still engaged in today.
First off, the Iroquois influence (centuries-old democracy before colonists arrived), as suggested Ken Burns, was invented from a unattributed line from a John Rutledge biography from the 1960. It has been debunked by academics and historians.
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GFY with your commie lies.
In 1988, the U.S. Senate passed a concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 76) officially acknowledging the "contributions of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution and to reaffirm the continuing government-to-government relationship between Indian tribes and the United States".
Historical documents show the Founders' interest. For instance, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a 1787 letter that Native American societies, "which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under European governments," indicating a view of Indigenous societies as a positive comparison to European models. John Adams included descriptions of Iroquois and other Indigenous governments in a handbook he wrote for the Constitutional Convention.
Seriously. GFY with your commie lies.
