Madison’s description of the Achaean Confederacy [FN66] is short, makes no reference to religious underpinnings, and notes that it was dissolved after Alexander’s death. [FN67] The Helvetic Confederacy was chronologically the oldest entity to exist after 1/12

Jesus Christ is said to have lived, that Madison reviewed. [FN68] He rejected “Republic” or “Sovereign State” as titles & in support, notes there was no “common instrument by which they are all reciprocally bound together.”…

Madison arrived 10 days early in Philadelphia and kept busy. His study of the histories of republics was of republics from “classic” times (i.e., Greece and Rome) before events described in the New Testament and thus inherently not Christian. [FN56] 1/11

He notes Montesquieu’s dispute that the Lycian confederacy was a republic; he does not say its government was religious. [FN57] It existed in the 5th Century BCE, [FN58] and Madison cites it in regard to proportional voting. [FN59]…

James Madison (called “the Father of the Constitution”) [FN48] saw defects in the Articles of Confederation (“Articles”), [FN49] comparable “to the League of Nations.” Each State was a “sovereign” that could ignore a single-chamber Congress. [FN50] 1/10

Madison & others met in Annapolis & recommended on “the second Monday in May next” delegates from the States convene in Philadelphia and consider the “situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall…

How do you evaluate whether the following statement is true: The United States was founded as a Christian country? You have to rely upon items that can be examined or reviewed by others. [FN40] Our inquiry is of events, their conclusion, and the nature of that conclusion. 1/11

The National Archives lists the Declaration of Independence [FN41], the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as “instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.” [FN42] The Declaration does not…