"So, the clerks who wrote the final draft of the US Constitution included "A.D"."
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The "Founding Fathers" could write. And they didn't write "AD" as you hope. They wrote "in the year of our Lord..." which doesn't refer to Mohammad, Buddha, or the Apostle Paul.
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"at the time, because that was the thing to do, it was done by Christians without thinking."
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So you would have wrote that? Because you are a non-thinking non-Christian who does what everyone else does? It was written that way because a good many (not all, but most) of our Founding Fathers were Christians and that is the way they dated important documents, to signify that "the date" was "truly" "in the year of our Lord...."
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By the way, keep it up. I love - love - comments that allow me to respond with references to God, Jesus, and the Bible.