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

• Joseph Story Supreme Court Justice (appointed to the Supreme Court in 1811 by James Madison, the Father of the U.S. Constitution)

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It seems a lot of people missing from the death index. They've got some problems