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To: P-Marlowe
And that my friend is a clear statement of the original intent of the first amendment!

Uh, no. The First Amendment came later, and the Federalist Papers make no comment thereon. None at all. I posted those excerpts from the Federalist Papers to show the Framers' concerns about the dangers of combining religion and politics.

2,681 posted on 12/24/2005 11:35:20 AM PST by PatrickHenry (... endless horde of misguided Luddites ...)
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2,682 posted on 12/24/2005 11:38:22 AM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: PatrickHenry; donh; metmom; xzins; blue-duncan; jude24
The First Amendment came later, and the Federalist Papers make no comment thereon.

That is true, but the sentiments exrpressed there are the same concerns which caused the founders to pass the first amendment. They were not concerned with innocuous statements from School Boards in rural parts of Pennsylvania. Their concern was with the establishment of religion.

The fact is that they did not even concern themselves with the combining of religion and politics (which are inseparable) but simply with the emergence of a dominant religious power and its ultimate marriage to the state -- as had occurred in Europe.

To claim that the Federalist papers support the decision in the Dover case is ludicrous on its face.

2,685 posted on 12/24/2005 11:45:06 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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