when in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

but they did in this document


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if locke had lived long enuff to carry each and every delegate on his back to philadelphia for the convention, bought them all dinner, powdered their wigs at night while they slept and, to a man, they joined him daily at noon to chanting the name of god 30,000 times before counting down locke'w top 100 biblical verses most vital to good government, it could barely be more telling that our constitution's authors and executors chose--not neglected nor forgot--to avoid any mention of god, christ or the bible in that document.

many of those men were lawyeres. all were products of an era in which words were weighed carefully and employed deliberately.

then, as now, what matters isn't what's opined or proposed or discussed. if it ain't in the contract, it ain't germane.

where exactly in the bible will one find manifestations or advocacy of man's inalienable rights, religious freedom and individualism? far as i know, classical greece didn't contribute anything to the old testament.

as far as limited government goes, core support for all remaining european monarchs has always been provided--to this very moment--by one christian church or another.

our constitution was the first--and remains the most defiant--affront to the concept of divinely delegated governmental authority.

nature and nature's god could as easily refer to a hindu diety as your candidate. i don't recall any similarly phrased reference to the god of the old or new testament.