Unfortunately some of them were freemasons, which is why "freedom of religion" ( a dangerous heresy) and the line "all men are created equal" ended up in the founding documents and are part of the reason those documents are so toothless. Masonry is the fusion of Egalitarian and Gnosticism, which is why they so eagerly gave themselves over to Satanism (Ie the jews). Sadly the Tree of Liberty was infected with the "fruit of knowledge", the Bane of Man, from the very start.