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To: RobbyS

There's a "little bit" of material to discuss concerning the Court's misrepresentation of Jefferson so I'm claustrophobic in these length-limited posts. Please allow me to be grouchy and bear with me with a religion-specific Jefferson example of the 10th A. protected powers of the states.

"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. http://tinyurl.com/nkdu7


14 posted on 08/26/2006 9:27:09 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808.




How far did Jefferson believe human authority over religion went?
102 posted on 08/30/2006 6:04:04 PM PDT by TexasJackFlash
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