"There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle in religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation."
296 posted on 10/20/2011 5:44:32 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
Click the pic. "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
- James Madison
297 posted on 10/20/2011 5:48:02 PM PDT by RedMDer
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Click it. "While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.
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299 posted on 10/20/2011 5:51:35 PM PDT by RedMDer
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