Subject:  American Minute - September 17 - U.S. Constitution
Date:  Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:38:57 GMT
American Minute with Bill Federer
September 17

"Done...the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven."
This was the last line of U.S. Constitution, which was approved this day.
A study done by Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, in their work The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought" published in the American Political Science Review, revealed that after examining nearly 15,000 writings of the fifty-five men that wrote the Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and monographs, that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34% of all direct quotations used by our Founding Fathers.
When indirect Bible citations were included, they found the percentage increased to an overwhelming majority.
Regarding the Constitution, President George Washington wrote to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 10, 1789, just ten days after his inauguration:
"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it."
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