First Amendment wrote:First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech or the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Rickoshay75 wrote:As you can see the first amendment is ALL about religion.
That is a
non-sequitur, Rickoshay,
based apparently upon your confusion.
I (for one) cannot see what u allege. The Amendment simply sets forth
a list of different things that lie beyond the jurisdiction of Congress.
Rickoshay75 wrote:freedom of speech, Press, and assembly are all church related.
Please indicate your evidence for this conclusion.
Rickoshay75 wrote:That was and is very clear to independent grammarians,
O, really ?????
Which ones, Rick???
WHICH "grammarians" are those????
Please tell us.
The syntax of the Amendment is written in the
DISJUNCTIVE,
using the word
: "or" as in, for example hot
or cold, right
or rong,
North
or South, accurate
or mistaken, orthodox
or liberal, up
or down,
neat
or sloppy free
or slave, one thing
or another. The Amendment simply
sets forth
a list of different things that lie beyond the jurisdiction of Congress.
What is the problem, RicK?
IF Madison had actually been a religious fanatic, as u imply,
and not a libertarian, then he 'd have cast the Amendment into
different language to accomplish his theocratic desires, to wit:
James Madison woud have wrote:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
and no law abridging a church's freedom of speech or of the ecclesiastical press;
and none of the right of the people peaceably to assemble in church,
and to petition the government for a redress of religious grievances."
Madison was articulate; he had no trouble in being lucid.
Rickoshay75 wrote:and forth grade English students.
Yeah, I was in the 4th grade when I first read the Constitution.
I found it in the back of a history book,
but I did not fall into the error of understanding
that u have indicated.
Rickoshay75 wrote:Why it was later interpreted to include everyone will probably never be known,
but you can be sure that it was about money or power.
I believe that we can be sure
that u simply don 't know what u r talking about
and that u made up and
faked that reference to
anonymous "independent grammarians"
(unless u tell us who thay are and quote them).
Lord Salisbury wrote:“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated
by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts.”
Yeah, but u shud not trust anyone else, either.
( I thought u claimed that the experts ["independent grammarians" & 4th grade students]
were on
YOUR side, Rick! Now u say not to trust them. )
David
