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Lesson 2

The 1st Amendment
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 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceable to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”

    “The first to plead his case seems just,
    until another comes and examines him.”
    Proverbs 18:17

Letter to the Editor, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV, February 2, 2008
William Horton letter to editor

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THE STATE BECOMES THE CHURCH:
JEFFERSON AND MADISON

Who gave us the
unconstitutional
wall of separation between Church and State?
from Citizen magazine (2000)
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   “Chief Justice John Marshall, writing for a united Court in Barron v. Baltimore (1833), declared that the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights “contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the state governments.’”

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God and Jesus in the Constitution and Declaration

Church in the U.S. Capitol by David Barton

The Separation of Church and State by David Barton

Misusing ‘separation of church and state’ by Bill Federer

The 1st Amendment Explained
excerpted from
Separation of Church & State:  The Great Deception
Dr. D. James Kennedy
with permission from
Coral Ridge Ministries
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     "The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their sense of justice and the State Constitutions," wrote Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833. Who was Joseph Story? He was the founder of Harvard Law School and appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison - the same James Madison who introduced the First Amendment in the first session of Congress.

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Summary:

1. The First Amendment is a restriction on the U.S. Congress only; from establishing a national religion and from prohibiting the free exercise of religion on federal, state, county or local governments or the people.

2. It is not to be applied against state, county or local governments or the people.  State constitutions contain their own Bill of Rights.

3. When discussing the First Amendment one should not use the term “separation of church and state” as it is not applicable, is very misleading and misunderstood.  It is a false doctrine used as propaganda against Christians and Christian purposes. The First Amendment should simply be quoted as written and properly explained and applied.

End of Lesson 2

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