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Michael Shermer discusses the Enlightenment values and scientific pursuits of the U.S. Founding Fathers in shaping a rational society through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Michael Shermer makes the case that the U.S. Founding Fathers were not only steeped in Enlightenment values on which the Declaration of Independence was based, but they were also scientists searching to discover moral truths and values on which to base a rational society, which they succeeded in doing in this document along with the Constitution.

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