Original Intent

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:03:00 GMT

“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Johnson, June 13, 1823, University of Virginia on-line library).

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Crisis at the Constitutional Convention

bob@cmfhq.org (Bob Flynn) — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:08:00 GMT

The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ will be finally achieved.” John J. Dunphy, “A Religion for a New Age,” The Humanist (January/February 1983), 26

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God and Country

Original Intent

Crisis at the Constitutional Convention