Yes they wanted a reformed British constitution. If you read there founding documents and discussions about the Constitution they actually wanted to have a king they just wanted the king to be elected and they wanted him to have some limited powers but they actually wanted an elected king. It's why George Washington was called his Excellency in the beginning we don't call the president he's Excellency anymore but that is what they were called originally. Yes they were all british. George Washington and one of his famous speeches which is now very hard to find said you have a unique opportunity in America because for the first time you have a country consisting primarily of people who are all alike and believe the same thing and you have a unified purpose and belief system meaning they were mostly British and mostly protestant.
There was only one Catholic who was the signer of the declaration of Independence and I forget his name but there's a ship named after him and some other stuff but Catholics wouldn't sign it because it's a uniquely Protestant vision that human beings have inalienable rights that don't have to either go through a king or go through the Pope.
That is the reason Protestants came up with our constitution. Protestant ism teaches that you have rights as humans that are yours and are not given to you by the king nor are they granted to you by the pope. That is the unique Protestant idea or it was unique at the time. Now everybody stupidly just thinks oh that's what everybody always thought they don't even realize that belief in those things means you actually hold the most important inherent Christian Protestant views of all. You are a Christian Protestant if you believe that you as a human being have rights that don't come from the Pope that don't come from the King that don't come from Muhammad that don't come from whatever. Now I'm unsure about some of the Asian religions but as far as those in the English British empire it is a uniquely Christian viewpoint and a Protestant Christian viewpoint at that to believe that as a human being you have certain rights that no one gave to you.
Crackinjokes 0 points 1 month ago
Yes they wanted a reformed British constitution. If you read there founding documents and discussions about the Constitution they actually wanted to have a king they just wanted the king to be elected and they wanted him to have some limited powers but they actually wanted an elected king. It's why George Washington was called his Excellency in the beginning we don't call the president he's Excellency anymore but that is what they were called originally. Yes they were all british. George Washington and one of his famous speeches which is now very hard to find said you have a unique opportunity in America because for the first time you have a country consisting primarily of people who are all alike and believe the same thing and you have a unified purpose and belief system meaning they were mostly British and mostly protestant.
There was only one Catholic who was the signer of the declaration of Independence and I forget his name but there's a ship named after him and some other stuff but Catholics wouldn't sign it because it's a uniquely Protestant vision that human beings have inalienable rights that don't have to either go through a king or go through the Pope.
That is the reason Protestants came up with our constitution. Protestant ism teaches that you have rights as humans that are yours and are not given to you by the king nor are they granted to you by the pope. That is the unique Protestant idea or it was unique at the time. Now everybody stupidly just thinks oh that's what everybody always thought they don't even realize that belief in those things means you actually hold the most important inherent Christian Protestant views of all. You are a Christian Protestant if you believe that you as a human being have rights that don't come from the Pope that don't come from the King that don't come from Muhammad that don't come from whatever. Now I'm unsure about some of the Asian religions but as far as those in the English British empire it is a uniquely Christian viewpoint and a Protestant Christian viewpoint at that to believe that as a human being you have certain rights that no one gave to you.