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Joseph Story: "Pada saat adopsi konstitusi, dan amandemennya, sekarang...

"Pada saat adopsi konstitusi, dan amandemennya, sekarang dalam pertimbangan [yaitu, Amandemen Pertama], jenderal, jika bukan sentimen universal di Amerika adalah, bahwa agama Kristen harus menerima dorongan dari negara, sejauh itu tidak bertentangan dengan hak pribadi nurani, dan kebebasan beribadah."

--- Joseph Story

Versi Bahasa Inggris

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.