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October 01, 2007

Index

  • Percentage of Americans who believe the Constitution establishes a Christian nation: 55%

  • Number of times "God" "Jesus" "Christ" or "Christian" are mentioned in the Constitution: 0

  • Number of times "religion" or "religious" are mentioned in the Constitution: 2

  • Percentage of those references constituting limits on Congressional power: 100%
The first statistic comes from a survey from the First Amendment Center. The 55% is the sum of "Strongly agree" (38%) and "Mildly agree" (17%) for the question "The US Constitution establishes a Christian nation." While the 1000 person phone survey is conducted every year, there's unfortunately not historical data for this question.

The other three statistics come from doing a control-F on the text of the US Constitution ... which apparently 55% of Americans should read.

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