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To: fgoodwin

Most were Calvinists.

That is the heart of the idea of checks and balances.


3 posted on 07/02/2007 1:45:45 PM PDT by ears_to_hear (Pray for America)
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To: ears_to_hear
Actually, I think they were about equally divided between Congregationalists (New England), Presbyterians (Middle Atlantic) and Anglicans/Episcopalians (the South).

Madison, the Father of the Constitution, was an Episcopalian.

5 posted on 07/03/2007 5:48:59 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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