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Separating Church and State |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / RELIGION IN AMERICA |
| Author: Jude P. Dougherty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 5,859 Words, 36,001 Characters |
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The term "Bill of Rights" is commonly given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Like other declarations of rights before it, it is a document that both describes the fundamental liberties of a people and forbids the government to violate them. The first eight amendments to the Constitution list rights and freedoms possessed by every citizen. Amendments IX and X forbid Congress to adopt laws that would violate these rights.
The first Amendment reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The first of the religion clauses has come to be known as "the establishment clause"; the second as "the free-exercise clause." The meaning of these clauses, then and now, is the subject of this enquiry...
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...rching which has caused us to attend to our roots as a nation. We are in a position to see how far we have drifted from the worldview embraced by our Founding Fathers. In this celebration year, the wisdom of their political outlook has not gone unappreciated. To appropriate those time-transcending principles that guided their action is a short step that neither logic nor experience prevents.
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