Re: Florida Senate Judiciary approves repeal of church state separation

Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Because the Constitution is pretty specific on this point:
>
>  >"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
> prohibiting the free >exercise thereof."
>
>  >Nothing about states.
>
> Um...it does not say the President or Senate, either.
>

Senate is included under "Congress".

And Congress is the only branch allowed to "make law".


> So you think the founding fathers were only meaning Congress-anyone else (A
> state or President) can?
>

Sure. I think they had to put it that way because the 13 colonies were very
different from each other. All they wanted was that the federal government
wouldn't favorite one of their religions over another.

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