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Definitely non-Christian premises.
Where in Christianity do you find a division of legislative, executive and judicial functions for the purpose of preventing one from holding too much power? In Christianity, the executive is The Grand Poobah, no questions asked.
In which Christian nation was democracy forged? Oops, that's right; it wasn't. It was primarily in a pagan nation, to which the founders looked for guiding principles.
It is a fundamental Christian premise that all other religions are wrong. Indeed, it is the First Commandment. That doesn't really jibe very well with the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson made it quite clear in correspondence with John Adams, Thomas Cooper and John Cartwright that Jefferson understood American common law, which was the predominant legal system in the nation for many years, was not based on Biblical foundations but on centuries of developed legal practice and experience in England.
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