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Re: Opening Prayer during the First U. S. Congress
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Originally Posted by Richard J
We certainly did not exclude religious beliefs during the debate and construction of our government's authority.
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True. However, the final product, the U. S. Constitution, clearly excluded religion from the cognizance and jurisdiction of the government, that is to say, in the words of the great James Madison, "there is not a shadow of a right in the general government to intermeddle in religion."
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I find it appalling that Justice Antonin Scala, in his dissenting opinion in McCreary County v. ACLU, constructed his model of "the relationship between church and state" in America without even considering the actual text of the Constitution. How do incompetents like him get on the U. S. Supreme Court?
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