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To: Popman
A little Patrick Henry to get the juices flowing...

Patrick Henry, great jurist and great orator because he was first of all a great Christian, was wise enough to be an anti-federalist. The US Constitution, that lawyer's contraption, made in the name of a new deity ("we the people") was deliberately designed to secularize our continent. Most of the colonies had "test oaths" wherein an office-holder pledged allegiance to the God of the Bible and the Bible of God before being entrusted with civic office. The U S Constitution forbade those -- and this prohibition on God in government was completed in 1963, the Torcaso vs. Watkins case involving the lowest civic office, notary public.

143 posted on 01/18/2006 6:26:54 AM PST by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: TomSmedley

It sounds as if you aren't fond of the constitution.


146 posted on 01/18/2006 7:20:20 AM PST by Durus ("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
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