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1776 and the Constitution are fundamentally Liberal events influenced by the Enlightenment.
Take our First Amendment wording on freedom of religion, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” The purpose of that clause was to protect the practice of whatever religion a citizen wanted, without fear of punishment or retribution. We learned in grade school that the Puritans fled to the American continent because their religious practices were censured in England because it differed from the state religion which was the Church of England. Once in America, the Puritans were free to practice their religion in peace, and they were then also free to condemn those who had a different religion from theirs.
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Re: 1776 and the Constitution are fundamentally Liberal events influenced by the Enlightenment.
Right. Classical liberals. Not faggots screeching about tranny rights.
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Re: 1776 and the Constitution are fundamentally Liberal events influenced by the Enlightenment.
Baggers don’t do history
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Re: 1776 and the Constitution are fundamentally Liberal events influenced by the Enlightenment.
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Take our First Amendment wording on freedom of religion, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof….” The purpose of that clause was to protect the practice of whatever religion a citizen wanted, without fear of punishment or retribution. We learned in grade school that the Puritans fled to the American continent because their religious practices were censured in England because it differed from the state religion which was the Church of England. Once in America, the Puritans were free to practice their religion in peace, and they were then also free to condemn those who had a different religion from theirs.
That's an easy thing to say when you're a country of 2.5M, where nearly everyone who matters is of British Isles extraction (with some Germans and Dutch for variety) and some shade of Protestant.
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That's an easy thing to say when you're a country of 2.5M, where nearly everyone who matters is of British Isles extraction (with some Germans and Dutch for variety) and some shade of Protestant.
Exactly. In 1776 everyone, except for African slaves, was a white Christian European.
When the First Amendment was originally written it was assumed that the U.S. would always be a 99% white Christian nation.
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Re: 1776 and the Constitution are fundamentally Liberal events influenced by the Enlightenment.
You guys really let your country slide, eh?
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That's an easy thing to say when you're a country of 2.5M, where nearly everyone who matters is of British Isles extraction (with some Germans and Dutch for variety) and some shade of Protestant.
And women can't vote. That's the most important thing - women couldn't vote.
Republics only work when you don't hand out the right to vote to everyone with a pulse.
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Exactly. In 1776 everyone, except for African slaves, was a white Christian European.
When the First Amendment was originally written it was assumed that the U.S. would always be a 99% white Christian nation.
Do you never tire of being wrong?
It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.
George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
https://founders.archives.gov/documents … 06-02-0135
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