FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Justice Joseph Story on the Purpose of the First Amendment

(QUICK READ) — “The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects [denominations] and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.” – Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845, Commentaries…

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