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To: Texasforever
And you believe that will change with liberals in control?

It hasn't changed with a Republican in control, either. See what I mean?

122 posted on 06/01/2002 8:31:17 PM PDT by concerned about politics
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To: concerned about politics

A republican doesn't control the Senate.... see what I mean Vern?...... takes a few more to tango as the Executive isn't the only branch of gov't.....

Candidate

130 posted on 06/01/2002 8:35:43 PM PDT by deport
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To: concerned about politics
Your lack of knowledge of the Constitution is amazing! Where in the Constitution does it say Separation of Church of State? Here is Thomas Jefforson's comment:

In 1802, President Jefferson wrote a letter to a group of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, in ...... a letter to a group of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, in which he declared that it was the purpose of the First Amendment to build ''a wall of separation between Church and State.'' 15 In Reynolds v. United States, 16 Chief Justice Waite for the Court characterized the phrase as ''almost an authoritative ... (End of Quote)

Now since this goes back to the First Amendment which does not say Separation of Church in State, how in the world do you think that President Bush could change this when it doesn't say it to begin with?

Here is the First Amendment to the Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

147 posted on 06/01/2002 8:44:23 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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