I just heard John Hagee, the bloated lardbag televangelist, orating on patriotism, the teaching (or lack of it) of American hastory in American schools, and the woeful ignorance of school children about such things as the founding fathers. Students of today don't even know who the founding fathers are, Hagee asserts, because of the way our schools teach (or don't teach or inadequately teach) American history.
Then Hagee, to embellish his point, introduces some quote from Thomas Jefferson. As an aside , he states that Jefferson "knew something about the Constitution because he wrote it." The television camera then pans along a pew of Hagee's flock and his gullible sheeple are seen as smiling and nodding confidently, undoubtedly thinking something like, "Nice point--Pastor Hagee really knows his stuff on American history."
So WHO is IGNORANT of American history? John Hagee, that is who! Thomas Jefferson was not at the Constitutional Convention. He was in France when the Constitution was written.
From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration:
"Q. Was Thomas Jefferson a member of the Constitutional Convention?
A. No. Jefferson was American Minister to France at the time of the Constitutional Convention."
LINK:http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_q_and_a.html#cite
There were 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The signers are listed below. Jefferson is not among them. Nor was he among the other 16 who did not sign it. Hagee is a pompous, self-aggrandizing ignoramus!
1.Washington, George, VA
2.Franklin, Benjamin, PA
3.Madison, James, VA
4.Hamilton, Alexander, NY
5.Morris, Gouverneur, PA
6.Morris, Robert, PA
7.Wilson, James, PA
8.Pinckney, Chas. Cotesworth, SC
9.Pinckney, Chas, SC
10.Rutledge, John, SC
11.Butler, Pierce, SC
12.Sherman, Roger, CT
13.Johnson, William Samuel, CT
14.McHenry, James, MD
15.Read, George, DE
16.Bassett, Richard, DE
17.Spaight, Richard Dobbs, NC
18.Blount, William, NC
19.Williamson, Hugh, NC
20.Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, MD
21.King, Rufus, MA
22.Gorham, Nathaniel, MA
23.Dayton, Jonathan, NJ
24.Carroll, Daniel, MD
25.Few, William, GA
26.Baldwin, Abraham, GA
27.Langdon, John, NH
28.Gilman, Nicholas, NH
29.Livingston, William, NJ
30.Paterson, William, NJ
31.Mifflin, Thomas, PA
32.Clymer, George, PA
33.FitzSimons, Thomas, PA
34.Ingersoll, Jared, PA
35.Bedford, Gunning, Jr., DE
36.Brearley, David, NJ
37.Dickinson, John, DE
37.Dickinson, John, DE
38.Blair, John, VA
39.Broom, Jacob, DE
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