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To: Lane3 who wrote (80247)	1/19/2004 4:20:47 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

Absolutely: Regarding the basis of this discussion (founding fathers intended meaning)... "I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. ME 11:428 As you can plainly see Jefferson combined the two components of freedom of religion. He clearly intended the establishment of religion by the people to be protected and that the exercises of the people regarding their worship to be protected...

To: Lane3 who wrote (80247)	1/19/2004 4:33:27 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

Rah Rah Jefferson... 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,' thereby guarding in the same sentence and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press; insomuch that whatever violates either throws down the sanctuary which covers the others." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:382 "(The Clergy)… I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173