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Judge Joseph Story made an abridged version of his 1833 "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, before the Adoption of the Constitution," for use by colleges and high schools.

Excerpts:

- 980. ... "A large proportion of the most valuable of the provisions in Magna Charta, and the bill of rights of 1688 [England], consists of a solemn recognition of limitations upon the power of parliament; that is, a declaration, that parliament ought not to abolish, or restrict those rights." ...
- 981. ... "It is not always possible to foresee the extent of the actual reach of certain powers, which are given in general terms. They may be construed to extend (and perhaps fairly) to certain classes of cases, which did not at first appear to be within them. A bill of rights, then, operates, as a guard upon any extravagant or undue extention of such powers." ...
- 991. ... "The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government. It thus sought to cut off the means of religious persecution, (the vice and pest of former ages,) and the power of subverting the rights of conscience in matters of religion, which had been trampled upon almost from the days of the Apostles to the present age." ...

This book SUPPORTS that Christian men formed a Christian document that was named the US Constitution and then came the Bill of Rights - all stemming from Christian values...

Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the U.S. (Book & CD) Benjamin F Morris American Vision $29.95 (Highly Recommended)

I will load the PDF version of this here for everyone to download and read - and send it to everyone else that they know - send a copy to this stupid group that is protesting - and send one to the ACLU...

I bought two copies of the printed book to have and keep safe — the pdf came with it...on CD...

In 1800 a Jefferson supporter for President,Reverend John Leland was so happy after his election he had his flock celebrate the event by producing the largest cheese the world had ever seen.Every man and woman who owned a cow was to give all the milk on a certain day,only no federal cow was to give a drop.
When the cheese dried it weighed 1600 pounds,it took three weeks to drive it to Washington,all the country had heard of the big cheese and came out to to look at it as it drove along.
The massive cheese had Jefferson’s favorite motto etched into it “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God”.
Interestingly Lelands visit to the White House occurs on Jan.1,1802,the same day Jefferson wrote the letter to Lelands fellow Baptists assuring them that because of “separation of church and state”they had nothing to fear fRom government limiting their religious practices or expressions.