The book of Congress says this country was formed on pagan beliefs look it up. Its called the most approved plan. The Most Approved Plan: The Competition for the Capitols Design Open Competition Thomas Jefferson decided that the Capitols design should be chosen by a public competition, and advertisements began appearing in American newspapers in March 1792. The entries were disappointing to the judges -- Washington, Jefferson, and the Commissioners of the District of Colombia. Most of the entries survive to this day; they are a revealing reflection of the talent available among Americas amateurs, builder-architects, and professionals. The published guidelines stipulated matters of fact -- size and number of rooms and materials -- not issues of taste, such as style of architecture, historical association, or symbolic meaning. Thus the competitors themselves proposed ideas of how to convey Americas new political structure and social order. Their suggestions, ranging from simple to complex, economical to expensive, reflected commonly held beliefs about Americas governing population -- primarily farmers and merchants -- or promoted benefits promised by the Constitution. Most competitors drew upon Renaissance architectural models, either filtered through the lens of eighteenth-century English and American Georgian traditions or based directly on buildings illustrated in Renaissance treatises. The Capitol competition coincided with nascent Neoclassicism in America, in which forms and details from Greek and Roman architecture were revived. Three of the competition entries were inspired by ancient classical buildings. The Roman Pantheon -- the circular domed rotunda dedicated to all pagan gods -- was suggested by Jefferson, who later shepherded it through several transformations.
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