Such teaching is one reason many of the Founders were wary of Catholicism, as being contrary to their constitutional ideology.
George Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol.4, p.81: > Protestantism, in the sphere of politics, had hitherto been the representative of that increase of popular liberty which had grown out of free inquiry, while the Catholic church, under the early influence of Roman law and the temporal sovereignty of the Roman pontiff, had inclined to monarchical power
Joseph Story, founder of Harvard Law School and Supreme Court Justice: [If] men quarrel with the ecclesiastical establishment, the civil magistrate has nothing to do with it unless their tenets and practice are such as threaten ruin or disturbance to the state. He is bound, indeed, to protect . . . papists . . . . But while they acknowledge a foreign power superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjects. Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1833) vol. III, p.383 §400.
[W]e have . . . found ourselves obliged . . . to provide for the exclusion of these from offices who will not disclaim these principles of spiritual jurisdiction which Roman Catholics in some centuries have held and which are subversive of a free government established by the people. - John Adams and John Bowdoin, An Address of the Convention for Framing A New Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts-Bay to their Constituents (Boston: White and Adams, 1780), p. 17. - http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/catholics.htm
Actually, altough some report Storey as the founder of HLS, it was actually founded 10 years prior to his association. In 1817, the Law School was founded on the estate of Isaac Royall. The Royall coat of arms serves as the school’s shield to this day. As Royall was a slaveholder, and thus a “bad” man, that his coat of arms serves as the school’s shield is a current matter of some controversy.
Storey arrived on the scene in 1827 to accept the newly-endowed Dane Chair. Prior to his arrival, the school was sort of on the ropes, and had only one faculty member. Better times did follow 8n the aftermath of Storey’s appointment.