It has been stated by some that the Geneva Bible was the Bible present at the signing of the U. S. Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution, because it was the Bible that the Puritans brought with them to America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Bible]

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The ”foundations of the States which constitute this confederacy [the United States],” said the report, ”were laid by Christian and civilized nations, who were instructed or misled as to the nature of their duties by the precepts and examples contained in the volume they acknowledged as the basis of their religious rites and creeds [the Bible]. Invoking Genesis 1:28 as a frame of reference, the authors of the report stated: ”To go forth, to subdue and replenish the earth, were received [by ''Christian and civilized nations''] as divine commands or relied on as plausible pretexts to cover mercenary enterprises by the Governments which gave the authority and [sent forth] the adventurers who first discovered and took possession of the New World.”http://www.kumeyaay.com/2008/02/law-in-the-shadow-of-the-bible/