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Show I Feature An American Patriots Bookshelf-- SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS ingly challenged by such constitutional scholars as Raoul Berger, Lino Graglia, and J ames McClellan. But for present purposes, let us simply assume the First Amendment restrictions on Congress were applied against the states. What then? What did this prohibit? One thing we know for sure is that it did not prohibit officially sponsored prayer. As we have seen, Congress itselfengaged in officially prayer, sponsored, complete with paid official chapconthe federal government is now also lains, from the very outset-an- d tinues to do so to this day. Indeed, prohibited to the states. Here we meet the Orwellian con- in one of the greatest ironies of this cept of applying a protection of historical record, we see the practhe states as a weapon against them tice closely linked with passage of - using the First Amendment to the First Amendment-supplyin- g a achieve the very thing it was in- refutation of the Courts position tended to prevent. The legitimacy that is as definitive as could be of this reversal has been convinc wished. Submitted by Howard L. Roberts Jr. M.D. The Religious Roots of Freedom (cont.) Taken from Imprimis April 1995, by Stanton Evans, Director National Journalism Center The first amendment was intended to be a prohibition against the federal government. But that guarantee was supposedly broadened by the Fourteenth Amendment, which applied the Bill of Rights against the states. Thus, what was once prohibited only to tax-support- ed Panguitch Quilt Walk Festival June 7, 8, 9,2001 Quill Classes Quill Show Scrapbook Classes The language that had been debated off and on throughout the summer and then hammered out in conference finally passed the House of Representatives on September 24, 1789. On the very e next day, the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for a day of national prayer and thanksgiving. Here is the language the House adopted: We acknowledge with grateful hearts the many single favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peacefully to establish a constitutional government for their safety and happiness. The House accordingly called on President Washington to issue a proclamation designating a national day of prayer and thanksgiving (the origin of our current legal holiday). 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We are interested in sawlog purchases as well as the purchase of conifer timber. 0 or fax (435) Please contact us at (435) 613-050- General Civil Law Practice with emphasis on: Real Estate Family Law Wills Probate Trusts Estates Title Law Business Law Water Law Contracts Other Civil Litigation 34 North Main Street, Kanab, Utah 8 (435) be made respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, but also from that which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly no power over religious discipline has been delegated to the general government. It must thus rest with the states as far as it can be in any human authority. The irresistible conclusion is that there was no wall of separation between religious affirmation and the several Amendcould the nor First states, ment, with or without the Fourteenth Amendment, have been intended to create one. The wall cf civil government in federalgovernmentandthe states and was meant to make sure the central authority didnt meddle with the customs cf local jurisdictions. As a matter of constitutional law, the Courtis position in these reli- A service of the Utah Press Association and yur local newspaper ERIC S. LIND gious societies. Jefferson made the same point a few years later to a Presbyterian clergyman, who inquired about his separation, instead, was between the www.utahlegalnotices.com uTLJ ed us Cabins Shops Sheds Call for our book or fax us $10 floorplan tax-support- s: Ask your local paper how you can reach 676-836- Wo.22 - attitudetoward Thanksgivingproc-lamationI consider the government of the United States as interdicted from intermeddling with institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. TfUs tesults from the provision that no law shall mSk For more mfonnatioa call. 2 (435) 18 much better what it meant by the language adopted the preceding day than does our selfconsciously evolving Court two centuries later. And in the view of Congress, there was nothing either in law or in logic to bar it from engaging in officially sponsored, prayer, then or ever. It follows that the amendment cant possibly bar the states from doing likewise. We shall go to the record and see what Jefferson actually said about the First Amendment and its religion clauses. In his second inaugural address, for example, he said:n matters of religion, I have considered that itsfree exercise isplaced by the Constitution independent ofthe powers ofthe general government. I as Robert Cord observes, both have therefore undertaken on no Congress and George Washing- occasion to prescribe the religious ton violated the intended mean- exercises suited to it. But I have left ing ofthe First Amendment from them as the Constitution found its inception. them, under the direction or disciThe more logical conclusion, pline of state or church authorities of course, is that Congress knew acknowledged by the several reli- to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor...That great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that ever will be, that we may then unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection ofthe people. Such were the official sentiments of Congress and the president immediately after the adoption of the First Amendment. These statements are far more doctrinal and emphatic than the modest prayer schoolchildren are forbidden to recite because it allegedly violates the First Amendment. If we accept the reasoning of the modem Court, r Cow boy Action Shoot WEDNESDAY APRIL 25, 2001 gion cases is an intellectual shambles-results-oriente- 613-050- 3 es$!t Salt Lake City to New Orleans (starts 62) Washington DC New York Honolulu 59 88 69 249 329 49 59 59 88 98 CruisesTours New York Fall Foliage 39- 9- (September 15, 2001) Caribbean 399 EactnvabasetmouniHriwrchasePriceett QhSIS i y Western, Eastern, Southern (Sept 22, 23, 30 Maui, Kona, Kawai LDS New York Pageant Tour Los Angeles San Diego One Week Condos 1 San Francisco Special Miami TOUT June 12, 2001 pricing for Orlando To Salt Lake City from Calif: San Diego, San Francisco or Los Angeles 59 644-880- 0J & Oct 7) 399 jurisprudence at its most flagrant An even greater scandal is the extent to which the justices have rewritten the official record to support a preconceived conclusion: a performance worthy of regimes in which history is tailored to the interests of the ruling powers. In point of fact, Americas constitutional p to and including the First settle-ment-u- 344 -- d 10 Seats ED Amendments was the work ofpeople who believed in God, and who expressed their faith as a matter of course in public prayer and other governmental practice. . |