2010-08-25 03:42
Yet, amazingly, most of the contemporary rulings currently proceeding from that Amendment involve neither “Congress” nor the “making of a law.” It is truly remarkable… Read More
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2010-08-20 03:22
Let it simply be asked, “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert?” George Washington When the minds of the peop… Read More
2010-08-12 07:11
What each has done has been to recognize and to follow the deeply entrenched and highly cherished spiritual traditions of our Nation traditions which come down to us from those who almost tw… Read More
2010-08-07 06:45
Jesus Christ has in the clearest manner inculcated those duties which are productive of the highest moral felicity and consistent with all the innocent enjoyments, to which we are impelled b… Read More
2010-07-23 02:22
On this account particularly he deserves applause and encouragement. On September 12, 1782, the full Congress approved that Bible which soon began rolling off the presses. Printed in the fro… Read More
2010-07-15 08:07
They were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct. Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Decla… Read More
2010-07-09 07:32
Lindenmuller v. The People, 1860 Supreme Court of New York this court ruled that while Blue Laws could be considered a civil prerogative of the State to provide a day of rest for all peopl… Read More
2010-07-08 05:28
The John Adams’ quote is taken from a letter he wrote to Thomas Jefferson on April 19, 1817, in which Adams illustrated the intolerance often manifested between Christians in their den… Read More
2010-07-03 05:16
For 150 years following the ratification of the Constitution, States were considered the highest authority on any dispute involving the issues within the Bill of Rights. Only under unusual c… Read More
2010-07-02 02:25
No test is required. All men of equal capacity and integrity are equally eligible to offices I do not suppose an infidel, or any such person, will ever be chosen to any office unless the peo… Read More
2010-07-01 08:17
Today, the Court divides the religious clauses of the First Amendment into what it terms “The Establishment Clause” “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment… Read More
2010-06-12 03:30
They did not oppose emancipation. They were not “Ku-Klux” . . . They did not scourge, and hang, and shoot, and murder men for opinion’s sake. They did not organize the Lou… Read More
2010-06-05 03:24
In 1884, John Roy Lynch became the first black American to preside over a national political convention – the Republican National Convention in Chicago. 296 While Lynch was the first b… Read More
2010-05-31 07:25
The Klan shot down this white State Senator because he was Republican and was fighting for the rights of blacks in his State. Even republican U.S. Rep. Joseph H. Rainey though Dr. Winsmith w… Read More
2010-05-19 07:59
John Jay, as the Court’s first Chief Justice, was, along with James Wilson, an original member of the Supreme Court. You may recall that John Jay was a founding vice-president of the A… Read More
2010-05-19 07:48
From this short, but plain and, I hope, just statement of things, we perceive a principle of connection between all the learned professions; but james wilson at the signing of the constituti… Read More
2010-05-19 07:40
David Barton tells us that except for a short period for remodeling, the Senate met in its original chamber (now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) until 1810, when it moved directly upstairs in… Read More
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