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To: jbe who wrote (41697)	6/24/1999 4:24:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Because the delegates thought that they were establishing a federated government (composed of autonomous pre-existing states) with limited, designated powers, rather than combining subsidiary governments into one government of plenary, unlimited powers. Because religion varied so much, even discussion of religious was likely to be impossible, ecause the delegates themselves recognized that each of their states had its own internal disputes and differences. The constitutional convention knew that the battle for adoption would be hard fought. They wanted to include nothing unnecessary that would threaten their success. They had two great advantages that they knew pulled them together and overcame almost all of their differences. First, the memory of a recently completed war which all of the states had fought for and sacrificed for. The second was that every person knew who the new president would be. The why I think is simple. No one wanted wanted religious uniformity which most of them opposed on principle. Those who wanted uniformity doubted that their brand would win. Everyone, I suspect, thought that religious requirements would prevent adoption.