| | Hi Jeff,
The assertion that (though there can obviously be exceptions), "American rebels fought in the name of religion to fight of[f] an oppressor..." is simply historically false. If you peruse that link to the Library of Congress, you'll find that the assertion is accurate. I even underlined some text up there to make it easy to accept. Many of the American rebels were quite religious, just as that Maccabees were. But really, I think the main thrust of both uprisings were to ward off a a big bad oppressor, rather than to fulfill some Jihad.
The history of the adoption of the Bill of Rights (and more generally, the Constitution) doesn't begin at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War. It, as part of the whole struggle, was at the end of a process that went back at least 30 years prior.
In some sense that's true. But the Constitution and subsequent Bill of Rights didn't come to paper, really, until that interim period. More to the point, legislative history tends to rely on congressional record and prior drafts bills, not the personal writings of one of the drafters, particularly where those personal writings don't explicitly or directly pertain to the legislative document at hand.
But we are quite digressing from the original intent of this thread. We could always pop out a new one.
Jordan
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