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That is the same language that was included in the Northwestern Ordinance, which Congress and the Courts held did not require the government to support the gospel.

That provision was abolished in 1833, which proves that the people of Massachusetts in 1890 did not want their government supporting religion.

Delaware was one of three states out of fourty five states had a religious test for its civil officers. It was the exception, not the rule.

One state out of fourty five was populated by Un-Christian religious bigots who conditioned one's right to serve as a juror or to be a witness on one's religion. It was the exception, not the rule.

Where in that do you find any civil authority over reigion?

What familiar requisitions? How does allowing a depontent to chose between a religious oath or a secular affirmation come to mean that the people granted the government authority over the support or encouragement of the duty which they owe to their Creator?

How does the expression of gratitude to God by the people grant their Government authority over their relgion?

Was government support or endorsement of relgion even an issue in "Holy Trinity?" If so, please post the portions of the opinion that adress that issue.

In my view, what was intended by the founders was probably what actually happened during the Early Years of the Republic. At the federal level there was: No making God (especially doctrine and manners of worship) the object of human legislation. No use of law making authority to declare...

They did consider the U. S. to be a "Christian Nation." However is was probably not your kind of "Christian Nation." Their idea of a "Christian Nation" was one that adopted a system of republican government that excluded the duty which we owe to our Creator from the cognizance of the...

If that is the case, then why, during the Early Years of the Republic, did the following take place? Why did the U. S. Congress not allow prayer during its official legislative sessions? Why did Congress terminate the practice of asking the Presidents to issue religious proclamations...

What is your source of information; and your idea of a "state religion" and what eight states had state religons at the time our system of government was established? No state, except South Carolina, had any sort of religious doctrine or mode of worship establshed by law in 1788. Three...

The legal issue in "Holy Trinity" was whether the minister of the Holy Trinity church provided "services" to his congregation. The court's opinion that this is a Christian Nation was unnecessary dicta. The case says nothing whatsoever about the meaning of the Constitution and the First...

All of that was removed in 1790 to bring the South Carolina Sate Constitution in line with the U. S. Constitution.

All of that was removed in 1790 to bring the Pennsylvania State Constitution in line with the U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

North Carolina had no legal establishment of religion after 1776 and its religious test, which supposedly excluded non-Protestants, was never enforced. The religious test in the North Carolina Constitution of 1776 was not obtained from the consent of the governed. For that reason it was...

How does excluding the clegy from the Kentucky legislature show the people of Kentucky had no problem with government authority over their religion?

Georgia had no established religion after 1776 and the George religious test was removed before the First Amendment was even sent to the States for ratification. How do you reconcile the abolishment of the Georgia State Religion in 1776 and the removal of the religious test in 1789 with your...