"In 1787, 55 men met…"
Wrong file sorry anons, been off here too long.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/godinamerica/people/god-and-the-constitution.html
By time of the convention, the Founding Fathers and "ordinary" Americans subscribed to the idea of religious liberty. This was not an abstract principle but a vital, living concept influenced by multiple sources, including Whig political theory that rejected the concentration of political power; the experience of religious dissenters, British and American, who resisted the authority of established churches; and the religious revival known as the Great Awakening that stressed individual experience over orthodoxy.