if you actually got it in the mail , you should be good to go and don ' t have to worry about this link no longer working . <| sep |> Yeesh . Now or never lads . <| sep |> Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs and Santander are reported to be dropping their membership in the R 3 CEV Blockchain consortium . Why ? Details here b r e a c h i n b l o c k c h a inconsortiumbanksleavingr 3 <| sep |> But the Puritans didn ' t establish the first , the only , nor even the largest colony in North America , and their influence in forming the US government is a bit overblown . Hamilton and Madison , largely credited for the constitution , were from New York and Virginia respectively , and the first five presidents are referred to as the Virginia Dynasty because they were from the stateformer colony minus Adams who had been Washington ' s VP . Other colonies were very much interested in religious freedom . Pennsylvania for example , home of the original capital , was specifically founded on religious tolerance . As for secularism , it was a government formed on the basis of popular popular , as it was not divine , even if it wasn ' t universal nor direct democracy will , while the European powers were still gripped by monarchy and divine right the French monarchy didn ' t fall until after the establishment of the US .