There is no dissonance in these declarations.
There is a universal language pervading them all,
having one meaning. They affirm and reaffirm that
this is a religious nation. These are not individual
sayings, declarations of private persons. They
are organic utterances. They speak the voice of
the entire people.
Official, "Organic" laws
While because of a general recognition of this
truth the question has seldom been presented to
the courts, yet we find that
No one has doubted this
in Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. 394, 400,
it was decided that,
'Christianity, general Christianity, is,
and always has been, a part of the
common law of Pennsylvania; * |
