[FredFlash]

You wrote:
Black's statement, "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach", was a lie in the manner he intended it, because his intent was strip the states of its power over religion, which was a usurpation of power by the court.


I say:
Have you ever read the Fourteenth Amendment; what makes you more of an authority than James Madison; and can you distinguish between the name of a legal concept and its substantive legal or intellectual content?

Justice Black's opinion mentioned James Madison eighty seven times. The substantive law established in Everson v. Board of Education (1947) was derived from the writings of James Madison. Thomas Jefferson's only contribution was to give the concept the name that it had already been awarded by the American people.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>I say: Have you ever read the Fourteenth Amendment...<<<

I have read it a time or two, dude, and the original intent was to provide equal protection for blacks (I guess they forgot to teach you that in your public schools).

>>>what makes you more of an authority than James Madison<<<

I never claimed it. For the record, what makes you more of an authority than Oliver Ellsworth (whom you have shown great contempt) and Joseph Story (whom you have shown even greater contempt). No offense, but I must assume them to much more in tune with original intent than you. After all, they had no chance to be brainwashed with the notion of "Separation of Church and State" and other liberal deceits.