American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

United States Supreme Court (1984) Associate Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist, in his dissenting opinion in the case of Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 92, 99, 107 (1984), stated: <It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history....The establishment clause had been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years.... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation [between church and state]....The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.... But the greatest injury of...

United States District Court, W.VA. (1983) Western District of Virginia, in the case of Crockett v. Sorenson, 568 F.Supp. 1422, 1425-1430 (W.D. Va. 1983), stated: <The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established. Clearly, the Establishment Clause can be violated in this regard without a showing of outright hostility to traditional theistic religions. Though in the context of the British university, the following quote is instructive for the situation in our public schools: On the fundamental...

United States District Court, S.A. (1983) Southern District of Alabama, in the case of Jaffree v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 544 F.Supp. 1104 (S.D. Ala. 1983), Judge Brevard Hand quoted from the nineteenth-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who succinctly clarified the original meaning of the First Amendment: <The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.> 1983US002 -- American Quotations by William J....

United States Supreme Court (1983) in the case of United States v. Grace, 461 U.S. 171, 177 (1983), stated: <Streets, sidewalks, and parks, are considered, without more, to be public forums.> 1983US001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1983US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Supreme Court, 1983, United States v. Grace, 461 U.S. 171, 177 (1983). Jay Sekulow, Letter to Mayors (Virginia Beach, VA: American Center for Law and Justice, November 17, 1992), p. 1.

United States Congress (October 4, 1982) by a Joint Resolution of both the Senate and House of Representatives in the 2nd session of the 97th Congress, declared 1983 the "Year of the Bible": <Public Law 97-280. WHEREAS the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people; WHEREAS deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation; WHEREAS Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States;...