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"Someone disagreeing with your interpretation of the Constitution does not make them weak minded"

You weren't disagreeing with my interpretation of the Constitution, you were saying that the use of "Lord" in the date constituted mentioning god in the Constitution.

"The 21st Amendment alone indicates a reversal of an interpretation."

LOL The 21st Amendment isn't a reversal of an interpretation; it is a reversal of an amendment.

"Your rendering does not make it a correct reading."

I'd bet money I'm right.

And how do you think the original amendment came about? By someone interpreting the Constitution to read a particular way.

And you'd lose.

And this is enough of that. You see it your way, I think you're wrong, as do millions of other people. You have your opinion and you're entitled to it. It definitely does not make you right, nor does it make me wrong.

It's time to end this exchange and move on. Right will always prevail. Arguing about it will accomplish nothing. I'm done.

You "separatist" make me laugh. Founders created federalism which tilted power to the States (Opposite of what is happening today).

“The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments, to be acted upon according to their justice and the state constitutions.” Joseph Story, appointed by that "deist" who actually knows a lot about the intent of the US Constitution, James Madison, WHO WAS WELL AWARE OF STORY'S BELIEFS BEFORE APPOINTING HIM TO THE USSC (Funny thing, Story had a Federalist bent in some ways, which is why he probably was not Madison's first choice, but a choice none-the-less)

Some States still had official State Churches long after the Constitution was ratified. Gee, you "libertarians" sure have a tyrannical, strong central Federal government bent in your argument, I mean come on, you sure as hell don't follow the ideas of Franklin, Madison (Democrat-Republican), Jefferson (Democrat-Republican), etc... who PUBLICALLY had no problem with certain States and their religious "fever".

Funny, I do not remember reading anything about Thomas Jefferson sending in the army in order to stop Massachusetts from perpetuating the Congregational Church as their State Church and require $$$ from individual towns going towards "institutions of public worship of *gasp* God... *gasp*".

I mean how the hell did God get into the Constitution of State governments. "I demand an oligarchy to put a stop to that." That is what you strong central types want, right, a Federal tyrannical government that treats the 10th Amendment like toilet paper? Show the quotes from those private letters, after all actions of our Founding "Deists" don't mean squat, right?