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A 4 page essay/research paper that discusses the right to Freedom of Religion, which is guaranteed under the First Amendment. This examination focuses on the issues that continue to define the division between church and state that this amendment imposes on the American government. Many people today would tear down the wall dividing church and state, but this is as inadvisable today as it was when Thomas Jefferson was president, as Americans today live within the context of an increasingly diverse society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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intention of the constitutional framers was to make it clear that state government had a free hand in matters of religion. It was not until 1868, with the passage of
the Fourteenth Amendment, that the Bill of Rights was applied to the states, which meant that from that point onwards, the states were "constitutionally required to be religiously neutral," as
well as the federal government (Harris 26). The following examination of the First Amendment right to Freedom of Religion focuses on the issues that continue to define the division between
church and state that this amendment imposes on the American government. Many people today would tear down the wall dividing church and state, but this is as inadvisable today as
it was when Thomas Jefferson was president, as Americans today live within the context of an increasingly diverse society. Historian Thomas E. Woods, author and senior fellow at the
Ludwig von Mises Institute, indicates that religion was fundamental to life in the American colonies, but that precisely how to worship differed considerably from one colony to the next. For
example, the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers as they were popularly known, judged the worship services of Puritans to be too formal. Quakers, living in Rhode Island used to
travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This antagonism was a factor that had a direct influence on the
way in which the Bill of Rights was formulated as each "denomination and color was vigilant against interference in its internal affairs by the others" (Woods 2). The current
debate on how the First Amendment should be interpreted is exemplified in the actions of the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Judge Roy Moore, who, in 2001, placed
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