Dan wrote:
I'm sure that one can deconstruct it to mean anything, but the word
"creator" meant at the time "being who created." I'm not really an
origional intent guy, but I think using the same mapping of combination
of letters onto ideas as they used at that time is really a good idea.
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From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: The Founders on Separation of Church and State: Washington,
Adams, Franklin
> On T
At 11:23 PM 6/17/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>Yea, and you think that they'd pass some horribly unconstitutional law,
>like the Alien and Sedition Act.
Which doesn't have nearly the significance of being the very FIRST act of
Congress.
JDG
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:46:05 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It's enough to show that the constitution provided a "wall of separation"
in the minds at least some of the more prominent founders.
It also neglects the fact, that your reading of the Const
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From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: The Founders on Separation of Church and State: Washington,
Adams,Franklin
> A pretty selectiv
A pretty selective sampling there, Doug.
It also neglects the fact, that your reading of the Constitution would make
the Declaration of Independence Unconstitutional.
It also neglects the fact that the Founders who participated in the very
first Congress chose as their first discretionary act the
"I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe that the path of true piety
is so plain as to require but little political direction. To this
consideration we ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation,
respecting religion, from the Magna-Charta of our country."
George Washington, 1789
"The
