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There is on verse in the Bible our founding Father's used...?

to separate the power of our Government, what is that verse?

Update:

Hint: It is found in the Book of Isaiah.

Update 2:

Forgive me then- one not on. Thank you for correcting me. But I do differ with you that the Founders were athiests or deists- they believed wholeheartedly in the God and the Bible.

Update 3:

Really??? So James Madison is not the person who was able to help create the 3 Branches?

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At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read

Isaiah 33:22;

“For the LORD is our judge, [judicial]

the LORD is our lawgiver, [legislative]

the LORD is our king; [executive]

He will save us.”

Baron Charles Montesquieu wrote "The Spirit of the Laws", a book that was read and studied intently by our Founders. Montesquieu wrote in 1748; “Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislature if it were joined to the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be

http://www.eadshome.com/JamesMadison.htm

Update 5:

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22; “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.” Madison claimed Isaiah 33:22 as the source of division of power in government See also: pp.241-242 in Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History: The Principle approach by Rosalie Slater]

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Are you referring to Isaiah 33:22? This is a bizarre idea promulgated by some wacko named David Barton 15 years ago.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Founding Fathers were generally atheists or Deists....they did not have much time (or respect) for the Bible, since it was the standard "scripture" for a religion whose "Earthly Head" was either a British Monarch or an Italian man in a dress.....your Founders (eminently sensible folk that they were) found nothing worthy of respect in either!

    (Too much Christianity is REALLY bad for your spelling! The name for the digit representing singularity is "one", not "on")

    Silly goose!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It was more to do with their experience with state religions in Europe than with anything in the Bible.

  • 1 decade ago

    One nation indivisible.

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