Gunning Bedford (1747 -1812), one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States of America, was the delegate from Delaware to the Constitutional Convention, where he played a considerable part in the Federal Convention.  - Allen Johnson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1964), I:123.  Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 149.  He was later appointed by President Washington to the First Federal District Court in 1789.

He attended Princeton University, where he and James Madison shared a room.  While there he studied under the formative influence of John Witherspoon, one of the nations premier theologians and legal scholars.  - Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 148-149.

Being a delegate from the State of Delaware, he would have complied with the requirements for office stipulated by that State’s Constitution, which included:

“Article XXII Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust… shall… make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: ‘I, ____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.’”  - Constitution of the State of Delaware.  Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S. 457, 469-470 (1892).  M. E. Bradford, A Worthy Company (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. x.  David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 23.