Excerpt Of The Day: What The Establishment Clause In The First Amendment Really Means

by John Hawkins | December 20, 2005 11:27 pm

“The ACLU invokes that famous phrase about a “wall of separation between church and state” — a phrase found nowhere in the Constitution but somehow considered to be part of Constitutional law.

The Constitution forbad Congress from creating “an establishment of religion” but this was no mysterious concept known only to deep thinking legal scholars.

The people who wrote the Constitution all knew exactly what an establishment of religion was because they had all lived under one — the established Church of England.

Being established meant that everyone had to pay taxes to support that church, whether they belonged to it or not, and that people who didn’t belong to the established church could not be admitted to various institutions or be appointed to certain official positions.” — Thomas Sowell[1]

Endnotes:
  1. Thomas Sowell: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/12/20/179725.html

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