[daniel1212]

I've never thought of the Constitution as a Protestant document, but in many ways it is, in its stress on individual responsibility and the rule of law.

I honestly would not see that as distinctively Protestant.

Protestants tend to regard the rule of Popes and priests with suspicion.

Rather then providing them the implicit assent the self-proclaimed infallibility conditionally ascribed to popes and councils. The fact is that both the church and this country began upon principled dissent from those who presumed of themselves above that which is written.

[Albion Wilde]

"I've never thought of the Constitution as a Protestant document, but in many ways it is, in its stress on individual responsibility and the rule of law."

I honestly would not see that as distinctively Protestant.

I was speaking more in terms of the culture at the time of the Founding, which had been going through the sharp conflict of the Reformation. Nevertheless, traces remain in the comparative cultures of the Prot & RC churches in America today.