For the time being just name the names of 'the signers of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence' IYO who both believed and lived the gospel.
Lance, American history is not something I have in my hip pocket. I don't enjoy it as much as early church history. I did a quick search on Google and found the following paragraph. Maybe it will help you get started.
From: The Founding Fathers and Deism by David Barton http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=29
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None of the Founders mentioned fit the definition of a deist. And as is typical with those who make this claim, they name only a handful of Founders and then generalize the rest. This in itself is a mistake, for there are over two hundred Founders (fifty-five at the Constitutional Convention, ninety who framed the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights, and fifty-six who signed the Declaration) and any generalization of the Founders as deists is completely inaccurate.
The reason that such critics never mention any other Founders is evident. For example, consider what must be explained away if the following signers of the Constitution were to be mentioned: Charles Pinckney and John Langdon-founders of the American Bible Society; James McHenry-founder of the Baltimore Bible Society; Rufus King-helped found a Bible society for Anglicans; Abraham Baldwin-a chaplain in the Revolution and considered the youngest theologian in America; Roger Sherman, William Samuel Johnson, John Dickinson, and Jacob Broom-also theological writers; James Wilson and William Patterson-placed on the Supreme Court by President George Washington, they had prayer over juries in the U. S. Supreme Court room; and the list could go on. And this does not even include the huge number of thoroughly evangelical Christians who signed the Declaration or who helped frame the Bill of Rights.
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Peace be with you. David Miller.
p.s. I have not read that book that Izzy has mentioned. It sounds interesting. I'm reading H. Clay Trumbull right now on the Blood Covenant, the Threshold Covenant, and the Salt Covenant. Have you read these books?
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