This test could provide workable guidance to the lower courts, if ever, only by using little more than intuition and a tape measure. “It would be appalling to conduct litigation under the Establishment Clause as if it were a trademark case, with witnesses testifying they were offended but would have been less so were the [...]
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The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth and laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. John Quincy Adams The Christian religion its general principles must ever be regarded among us as the foundation of civil society. Daniel Webster True [...]
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Congress clearly intended that “the mail must go through!” Since Kirby and the three with him had confessed to interfering with the mail-carrier, they should be punished; however, there was more. It turned out that: Two indictments were found by the grand jury of the county against the said Farris the mail-carrier for murder and [...]
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Those documents completely disprove the notion that any founding President, especially Washington, ever declared that America was not a Christian nation or people. Chapter 16 will provide numerous additional current examples of historical revisionism. Consider next the quote attributed to Thomas Paine: “I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.” Is the accuracy of this [...]
Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious favorable smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right [...]
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Only three days later, Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott made their famous ride; and the next morning, April 19, the British began their march against Lexington and Concord which resulted in the “shot heard ‘round the world.’ ” The following day, British troops commenced military action In Virginia, seizing both public supplies and [...]
The “Fundamental Orders” explained why that document had been created: Well knowing when a people are gathered together, the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people, there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God. 18 That constitution next declared the colonists’ desire to: [...]
In New York the universal toleration of all religious professions and sentiments is secured in the most ample manner. Notwithstanding this constitutional declaration carrying the doctrine of unlimited toleration as far as the peace and safety of any community will allow, the courts have decided that blasphemy was a crime at common law and was [...]
For example, when Ohio territory applied for statehood in 1802, its enabling act required that Ohio form its government in a manner “not repugnant to the Ordinance.” Consequently, the Ohio constitution declared: Religion, morality, and knowledge being essentially necessary to the good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of instruction shall [...]
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The North Carolina constitution similarly prohibited from office those who denied “the truth of the Protestant religion” or who held “religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State.” However, as already noted, this was not a rejection of Roman Catholics in general, just of those who embraced doctrines “subversive of a free [...]
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