Same week Congress approved First Amendment, it requested Washington declare Nation's first National Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God

American Minute ^ | October 3, 2019 | Bill Federer

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The First Amendment was passed in the First Session of Congress, which was meeting in New York City.

The first Ten Amendments, called the Bill of Rights, were intended to be "handcuffs" or limitations on the power of the new Federal Government.

The Bill of Rights was signed by two individuals in the U.S. Congress: Vice-President John Adams, as President of the Senate, and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, as the First Speaker of the House, who was also an ordained Lutheran minster.

The PREAMBLE to the Bill of Rights reveals the intent of the States to prevent the Federal Government from an "abuse of its powers," insisting "restrictive clauses" should be placed on it:

"The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to PREVENT misconstruction or ABUSE OF ITS POWERS, that further declaratory and RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES should be added ... as amendments to the Constitution of the United States."

The First Amendment began:

"CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Websters 1828 Dictionary defined "respecting" as: "regarding," "concerning," or "relating to."

In other words, when the subject of "an establishment of religion" came before the Federal Government, their response was to be "hands off," as religion was under each individual State's jurisdiction.

In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833, Justice Joseph Story stated:

"In some of the States, Episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in other, Presbyterians; in others, Congregationalists; in others, Quakers ...

It was impossible that there should not arise ... jealousy ... if the national government were left free to create a religious establishment.

The only security was in the abolishing the power

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