The authors admit in the first paragraph that, " ...it's reasonable to assume that the Christian Sabbath is in view here...".
If you disagree with the authors, then what is the origin of this curious phrase in the Constitution, "Sundays excepted". And just for the record, I'm not talking about an ecclesiastical National establishishment of a Sabbath, so don't go off on that.
Cordially,
If you disagree with the authors, then what is the origin of this curious phrase in the Constitution, "Sundays excepted".It gave the President the option of not working on a Sunday. It did not forbid him from doing so.
-Eric