… and guess what they found?
I hope you’re sitting down for this.
It turns out David Barton just pulls a lot of stuff out of his ass.
(But they said it more NPR-ly.)
Here’s one example where Barton says the Constitution was taken “verbatim” from Scripture:
NPR’s Elise Hu and Barbara Bradley Hagerty beg to differ:
Barton says here that it’s “absolutely no surprise that so many clauses in the Constitution are literal, direct quotations out of the Bible” and that “A Republican form of government’ … came directly out of Exodus 18:21, Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 16:18.” But we could not find a single instance of the Constitution directly quoting the Bible. In Exodus 18:21, Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, tells Moses to find judges to help him hear disputes brought by people. Elsewhere, Moses appoints judges, not lawmakers.
And there’s plenty more where that came from. The full NPR article on him is here.
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