Quote Originally Posted by 3vil3lmo
I believe they were the first non-white sucessful settlers in America.

They were, this is true. But the writers of the Constitution were not Puritans, they were later colonists. Religious fundamentralism has never been part of the American institution, although it has sprouted up here and there. In fact we have a history of persecuting fundamentalism to a degree, in the case of early Mormonism.