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Does "institution" refer to "social systerm or governmental system" here?

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Reply Mon 19 Jan, 2015 08:52 am

Does "institution" refer to "social systerm or governmental system" here?

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A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Reply Mon 19 Jan, 2015 09:21 am
@oristarA,
That refers to the US Federal government. He was underlining the desire as well as the Constitutionality of maintaining a separation of church and state.
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Reply Mon 19 Jan, 2015 09:25 am
@Ragman,
Ragman wrote:

That refers to the US Federal government. He was underlining the desire to maintain a separation of church and state.


Cool.

So why did Bush do this:

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Garry Wills has noted that the Bush White House "is currently honeycombed with prayer groups and Bible study cells, like a whited monastery"
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Reply Mon 19 Jan, 2015 11:10 am
@oristarA,
I'll answer that with some humor: because Bush was an illiterate who either ignored the Constitution or was not informed of it.

The serious answer is that whatever activities White House members may have indulged in while in the WH has nothing to do with making legislation - hence such activity is not unconstitutional.
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Reply Mon 19 Jan, 2015 11:47 am
@Ragman,
Actually, it doesn't.
Jefferson wrote that quotation in a letter to philosopher Thomas Cooper. And was related to the academics/faculties of the newly founded University of Virginia. (Since then and until now, there has never been one.)
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Jefferson wrote:
In conformity with the principles of our constitution which places all sects [denominations] of religion on an equal footing – with the jealousies of the different sects in guarding that equality from encroachment and surprise, and with the sentiments of the legislature in favor of freedom of religion manifested on former occasions [as in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom] – we have proposed no Professor of Divinity
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