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Published May 07, 2008 08:26 pm - Another letter (Globe, May 4) has distorted the Constitution for the United States of America: The word “church” is not in the Constitution.
Voices: Distorting the Constitution
Another letter (Globe, May 4) has distorted the Constitution for the United States of America: The word “church” is not in the Constitution.
It is “religion” which shall not be established by law or Congress, and it is no “religious” test which shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
As American citizens, our “rights” come from the Constitution. James Madison, “Father of the Constitution,” accurately wrote: “Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history” ( William and Mary Quarterly, 3:555). The U.S. Supreme Court first referenced Madison’s comment in 1947 ( Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, Footnote 12).
Gene Garman
Pittsburg, Kan.
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