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Excerpt from A Nation's Right to Worship an Address Before the American Whip and Cliosophic Societies
This absolute neutrality in religion of the Constitution Of the United States, is admitted and defended by the commentators. Says one of them: It has been objected by some against the Constitution, that it makes no men tion of religion, contains no recognition of the existence and providence of God. But there were reasons why the introduction of religion would have been unsea Sonable if not improper. The Constitution was intended exclusively for civil purposes, and religion could not be regularly mentioned. The difference among the various sects of Christians is such that, in an instrument where all are entitled to equal consideration, it would be difficult to use words in which all could cordially join. The purity of religion is best preserved by keeping it separate from government. For these and other reasons, he adds It was impossible to introduce into the Constitution even an expression of gratitude to the Almighty for the formation of the present Such are the views-of the commentators upon the Constitution of the United States, in which they manifest a cordial zeal for the purity of religion by keeping it separate from govern ment but unfortunately they do not inform us what is to preserve the purity of government after it has become sequestered from religion - has thus solemnly excommu nicated itself. It were devoutly to he wished that some eminent statist of that school would speak to this point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
