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September 2026 Blog Posts (3)

Rhode Island: most definitely NOT a “Christian” State (Beckwith lies)

Rhode Island [FN186] “enjoys the honor of having been, if not the first, at least one of the earliest, of the colonies, and indeed of modern states, in which the liberty of conscience and freedom of worship were boldly proclaimed among its fundamental laws.” [FN187] 1/6

Rhode Island was the only State of the original 13 that did not send delegates to Philadelphia for the 1787 convention. Its notice of ratification makes no mention of the U.S.A. being founded as a “Christian” country.…

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Added by Mark Small on September 3, 2026 at 6:45am — No Comments

North Carolina ratified, 2nd time around & Federalists didn’t take an easy route

North Carolina is unique in constitutional history. Two conventions were called “for the purpose of deliberating and determining on the proposed Plan of Federal Government.” The first was held at Hillsborough from July 21, 1788 to August 4, 1788, when delegates, voted 1/15

“by a large majority neither to ratify nor rejected the Constitution.” [FN177] Subsequently, in convention at Ashville, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. [FN178] A 1715 declaration by North Carolina’s…

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Added by Mark Small on September 1, 2026 at 8:07pm — No Comments

Matters do not get better for “Christian” nationalists in VA or NY

In June 1788, 3 States (VA, NY, NC) that had sent delegates to Philadelphia had not ratified the Constitution. Virginia had early ties to religion: “the Church of England seem[ed] to have maintained an exclusive supremacy” until the American Revolution. [FN163] Its 1776 1/18

Constitution recognized religion as “the duty which we owe to our CREATOR,” a term that is of deism. [FN164] Also: “all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of…

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Added by Mark Small on September 1, 2026 at 7:37am — No Comments