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Thomas Cooley, President of American Bar Association in 1893: on Religion, 2nd Amendment, Local (Tr)
American Minute ^ | September 12, 2019 | Bill Federer

Posted on 11/26/2019 7:13:21 PM PST by Perseverando

Full title: Thomas Cooley, President of American Bar Association in 1893: on Religion, 2nd Amendment, Local Control of Government

The dean of the University of Michigan Law School was Thomas McIntyre Cooley, who died SEPTEMBER 12, 1898.

Thomas M. Cooley was:

Chief Justice of Michigan's Supreme Court (1864-1885), President of the American Bar Association (1893-1894), and the first Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1887).

Thomas Cooley's commentaries were influential in shaping American law.

He declined offers to teach at:

Hastings College of Law, University of Texas, Johns Hopkins University, Boston Law School, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Law School.

In Constitutional Limitations, 8th Edition, Volume 2, p. 966, 974, Thomas Cooley stated:

"While thus careful to establish, protect, and defend religious freedom and equality,

the American constitutions contain no provisions which prohibit the authorities from such solemn recognition of a superintending Providence in public transactions and exercises as the general religious sentiment of mankind inspires, and as seems meet and proper in finite and dependent beings ..."

Cooley continued:

"Whatever may be the shades of religious belief, all must acknowledge the fitness of recognizing in important human affairs the superintending care and control of the great Governor of the Universe, and of acknowledging with thanksgiving His boundless favors, of bowing in contrition when visited with the penalties of His broken laws."

In his General Principles of Constitutional Law, 1890, Thomas Cooley wrote:

"It was never intended by the Constitution that the government should be prohibited from recognizing religion, or that religious worship should never be provided for in cases where a proper recognition of Divine Providence in the working of government might seem to require it, and where it might be done without drawing an invidious distinction between religious beliefs, organizations, or sects ..."

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanminute; constitution; cooley
Time for another great American (and world) history lesson from American Minute.
1 posted on 11/26/2019 7:13:21 PM PST by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Interesting! Thanks for posting!


2 posted on 11/26/2019 7:35:12 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Perseverando

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3 posted on 11/27/2019 8:46:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Perseverando

Always enjoy these. Thanks.

L


4 posted on 11/27/2019 8:47:09 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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