“God” neither wrote nor inspired The Constitution. Sources, if applicable, will be listed at the end of this blog/tweets. 1) “God” as author/inspiration is neither invoked nor mentioned Congress’s 2//21/17 resolution to have a convention. [FN1] 1/8

2) “God” as author/inspiration is neither invoked nor mentioned in The Constitution.
3) “God” as author did not need a convention.
4) Convention was set to start 5/14, but quorum wasn’t reached until 5/25. [FN2]. “God” shouldn’t need to wait for a quorum. 2/8

5) The one mention of “religion” is inconsistent w/the Constitution being authored by “God” or having created a theocracy. [FN 3]
6) authored The Constitution or that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” 3/8

7) Travel wasn’t easy for most of the 55 delegates; e.g., Washington could have been killed when his carriage fell through a bridge. [FN4] 4/8

8) If “God” was author/inspiration, absence of group-led prayer from the first session (on 5/25) makes no sense. Benj Franklin’s motion to start ea day’s session w/prayer wasn’t offered until 6/28 and never came to a vote. [FN5] 5/8
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9) “God”as author/inspiration wasn’t argument FOR ratification; The Federalist mentions god consistent w/deism which “accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected [] supernatural deity ... [FN6].See Madison, Federalist 37. [FN7] To be cont’d 6/8

Footnotes: FN1. Journals of the Continental Congress, Vol. 32, pp. 73-74. FN2. Collier, Decision
in Philadelphia, 2007 ed, p 102. FN3. Art. VI. FN4. Labunski, James Madison & the Bill of Rights, 2006, pp. 20-21 FN5. Madison, Notes, 1987 ed, pp. 209-210. 7/8

Footnotes: FN6. Oxford languages, “deism.” FN7. Impossibility “not to perceive in it [the drafting of the Constitution], a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.” Federalist 37. 8/8