New Jersey uses day/year; ratification “this 18th day of December in the year of our Lord 1787" and since independence “the twelfth.” [FN1]
Connecticut twice uses “A.D.”; ratification: “January Ninth Anno Domini, 1788.” [FN2] 1/12

Massachusetts uses the deist “Supreme Ruler of the universe” [FN3] [FN4] & notes ratification the “7th day of February Anno Domini 1788.” [FN5]
Georgia’s dates are unadorned by reference to deity, but ratification: 1/2/1788 “in the year of our Lord.” [FN6] 2/12

Maryland’s dates of significance are totally naked. [FN7]
South Carolina’s ratification: “the 23rd day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788,” but suggests “inserting the word ‘other’ between the words ‘no’ and ‘religious’” in Art VI, sec 3. [FN8] 3/12

New Hampshire notes “the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe,” [FN9] a deist phrase. [FN10] It recommends “alterations and provisions” including: “XI. Congress shall make no laws touching religion or to infringe the rights of conscience.” [FN11] 4/12

Virginia reports its ratification as: “Done in Convention, this 26th day of June, 1788.” [FN12]
New York’s suggestions, beyond the text produced at the convention & include: “the people have an equal, natural, and unalienable right freely and peaceably to exercise their religion 5/12

according to the dictates of conscience; and that no religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.” [FN13] Ratification is noted as having occurred “the 26th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1788.” [FN14] 6/12

North Carolina, “In Convention, August 1, 1788,” suggested “a declaration of rights” that asserts and secures “the great principles of civil and religious liberty” be added “previous to the ratification of the Constitution” by North Carolina.” [FN15] 7/12

People who value our history, as contrasted w/the “true history” advocated by Christofascists like IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith, should download, while we can, these documents and store them in a Faraday cage & store it in a safe place. Future generations might want to read these. 8/12

Footnotes:
FN1. 1 Elliot’s Debates, pp. 320-21.
FN2. Id., pp. 321-22.
FN3. Id., p. 322. 9/12

FN4. “In place of this Hebrew God, deists postulated a distant deity. The Declaration [] displays precisely this kind of wording and sense of a distant deity.” Holmes, David L., “The Faiths of the Founding Fathers,” (2006 ed) pp. 46-47.
FN5. 1 Elliot’s p. 323. 10/12

FN6. Id., pp. 323-24.
FN7. 1 Elliot’s pp. 324-25.
FN8. Id., p. 325.
FN9. Id., pp. 325-26.
FN10. Id., at footnote 4.
FN11. 1 Elliot’s Debates, p. 326. 11/12

FN12. Id., p. 327.
FN13. Id., pp. 327-31.
FN14. The date is listed twice within New York’s report. 1 Elliot’s pp. 329, 331.
FN15. Id., pp. 331-32. 12/12