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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (55146)	10/31/2000 2:48:14 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769668

Try to understand that the Bill of Rights were restrictions on the federal government and had nothing to do with the states. Everyone understood that churches were established and it was generally discussed in the constitutional convention. No one wanted a national established church because New Englanders were congregational and virgina was C of E. Once the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed after the Civil War the fundamental relationship between the states and the federal government were changed and the federal government became supreme, leaving the states with very limited sovereignty. Since then, the supreme court has extended the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to make much of the Bill of Rights apply to the states. Thus the establishment clause now applies not only to Congress but to the states. I don't know what you mean about the states funding Congress. Congress was granted sources of revenue which were denied to the states (i.e. customs). Moreover, many rights were denied to the states (make war, regulate interstate commerce). You need to study the changing nature of federalism in the United States, especially after the Civil War which fundamentally changed the nature of our nation.