To: inquest
Where did the Founders establish that standard? In fact, where did they talk about the need for an "organization" for a religion to qualify as establishable?
677 posted on
08/21/2003 2:08:14 PM PDT by
lugsoul
To: lugsoul
In fact, where did they talk about the need for an "organization" for a religion to qualify as establishable? The same place the Constitution gives federal courts the power to tell a state judge what can and cannot go in his building.
To: lugsoul
Their chief concern was the practice that existed in England, where there is an official church that's an organ of the state. That's what establishment means in that context. Under that view of the word, you can't very well establish something (that is, invest it with government power) unless it's organized.
685 posted on
08/21/2003 2:12:47 PM PDT by
inquest
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