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To: tejek who wrote (362562)	12/13/2007 8:30:03 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1586861

I don't think the FF chose checks and balances from a religious perspective. I know Jefferson and Madison didn't: Jefferson was in France at the time of the Constitutional convention. Jefferson might have supported the Bill of Rights had he been a delegate but he wasn't and had nothing to do with the Constitution. Madison opposed the adoption of a Bill of Rights. He was forced to accept its addition due to the opposition of "anti-Federalists" like Mason and Lee. The Bill of Rights was modeled after Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights.