Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
by gassit on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:59PM
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I would be interested in reading some detail of the "wall of separation" of church and state being something that the Supreme Court made up. It seems quite self evident from the text of the First Amendment. And the quote seems to come directly from Jefferson?
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Re:A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (2017)
by rayiner on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:01AM
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The phrase “establishment of religion” has a specific meaning: official state churches that existed at the time: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...
Jefferson was a Francophile that had a radically different view of the first amendment than the other founding fathers. The constitution meant to create a society of religious pluralism, not French style secularism. See: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...