Posted on 06/24/2006 2:00:27 PM PDT by wagglebee
"-- This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made inPursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; --"
Frank, notice that laws and treaties must be made in Pursuance of the constitutions principles in order to be part of our supreme law.
One of those principles is that gov't legislators "-- make no law respecting an establishment of religion --".
'An establishment' of any religion can be a belief, a rule, a tenent, a precept; -- thus, - legislators can't "respect" specific beliefs in the making of the Law of the Land.
-- Just as they can't actually establish a specific religion.
Get the principle?
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