Friday, July 15, 2011
The Constitution and the Bible
Some founders were Christian, others were deist, pantheist, and a slew of sort-of-God believing creeds (and probably some atheists, I really don't know). But I wonder if the founders were thinking about 1 Samuel 8 when they wrote Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. God warns Samuel about letting the people choose a king to rule them because the king would send their children to war and tax 1/10th of their agricultural yield. The powers to tax and to go to war, amongst other things, are granted to the Congress in article 1 section 8, not to the executive branch. Is the "chapter 1, section 8" numeration a coincidence? There's a research topic for those interested in law and religion.
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