"… at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State, so far as such encouragement was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation."
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
"A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States"
1840
Religious ‘Neutrality’ & the Lemon Test
The United States Department of Education declared that every school and college receiving federal money must teach about the U.S. Constitution each September - Constitution Day.
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