Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Hostility to Religious Expression in the Public Square : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, June 8, 2004, Volumul 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005 - 184 pagini |
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... decision in 1990 by reducing the protection of religious expression from governmental intrusion . I was disappointed when the Court later struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as an inappropriate exercise of Congressional ...
... decision in 1990 by reducing the protection of religious expression from governmental intrusion . I was disappointed when the Court later struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as an inappropriate exercise of Congressional ...
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... decisions abridging our right to acknowledge God is far too long . It is imperative that we exemplify how these deci- sions affect the lives of real people and that they are not just words on paper . I am pleased that the Committee ...
... decisions abridging our right to acknowledge God is far too long . It is imperative that we exemplify how these deci- sions affect the lives of real people and that they are not just words on paper . I am pleased that the Committee ...
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... decision very quickly in the case of Elk Grove Unified School District v . Newdow before the end of this current ... decision . The day the decision was announced in June of 2002 , I introduced a constitutional amendment that ...
... decision very quickly in the case of Elk Grove Unified School District v . Newdow before the end of this current ... decision . The day the decision was announced in June of 2002 , I introduced a constitutional amendment that ...
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... decision is an affront to common sense . References to God are found in every one of our founding docu- ments , from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution itself , as well as the Pledge of Allegiance . President James Madi ...
... decision is an affront to common sense . References to God are found in every one of our founding docu- ments , from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution itself , as well as the Pledge of Allegiance . President James Madi ...
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... decisions for public jobs to be based solely solely on one's religious faith . No American citizen should have to pass another citizen's private religious test to qual- ify for a tax - funded public job . That type of religious ...
... decisions for public jobs to be based solely solely on one's religious faith . No American citizen should have to pass another citizen's private religious test to qual- ify for a tax - funded public job . That type of religious ...
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Pagina 64 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Pagina 149 - ... preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe." We do not agree, however, that this decision in any sense has that effect. In addition, it might well be said that one's education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization.
Pagina 65 - For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Pagina 99 - In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.
Pagina 64 - The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
Pagina 152 - It has been argued that to apply the Constitution in such a way as to prohibit state laws respecting an establishment of religious services in public schools is to indicate a hostility toward religion or toward prayer. Nothing, of course, could be more wrong. The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion.
Pagina 39 - Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible...
Pagina 28 - ... the transcendent law of nature and of nature's God, which declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
Pagina 38 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion...
Pagina 29 - Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor...