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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (24619)6/4/2003 1:25:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Here:
He argues that the mandate that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" does not create an individual right to be free from established religion; it simply leaves that determination to the states: the clause only "prohibited the national legislature from interfering with, or trying to disestablish, churches established by state and local governments" (32). In support of this interpretation, Amar points to both the legislative history of the clause and early judicial interpretation of it, as well as the fact that the six states with established churches at the time of the Amendment's ratification were not forced to disestablish them.
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Now why don't you try a different approach to posting for a change: Find out what the F*** your talking about before banging on the keyboard?
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