American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Jersey (1990) a census reported: <Roman Catholics formed the largest single religious group, constituting 45.9 percent of the population. Other leading religious groups in the state included Baptists 10.2 percent, Methodists 6.7 percent, and Jews 4.3 percent.> 1990NJ001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1990NJ001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Jersey, 1990, census. http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/states/newjersey.html

United States Supreme Court (June 4, 1990) in the case of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496, U.S. 226, 250, (1990), No. 88-1597 Part III was delivered by Justice O'Connor and No. 88-1597-CONCUR Part II was delivered by Justice Kennedy and Justice Scalia. By this 8 to 1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled to allow the formation of Christian clubs on the campuses of public schools, provided they were student initiated. Students were to be granted identical rights which other non-curricular groups were enjoying: <There is a crucial difference between government speech endorsing religion, which the Establishment Clause forbids, and...

United States Congress (February 22, 1990) in Senate Joint Resolution 164, authorized and requested President George Bush to issue a Presidential Proclamation declaring 1990 the International Year of Bible Reading. In his Proclamation, President Bush stated: <Among the great books produced throughout the history of mankind, the Bible has been prized above all others by generations of men and women around the world-by people of every age, every race, and every walk of life. The Bible has had a critical impact upon the development of Western civilization. Western literature, art, and music are filled with images and ideas that can be traced...

Rhode Island Constitution (1988): <PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of government... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 3. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness;...

United States Congress (January 25, 1988) by a Joint Resolution of the 100th Congress, declared the first Thursday of each May to be recognized as a National Day of Prayer. <PUBLIC LAW 100-307-MAY 5, 1988 One Hundredth Congress of the United States of America AT THE SECOND SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight AN ACT To provide for setting aside the first Thursday in May as the date on which the National Day of Prayer is celebrated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House...