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AT LAST, it is posted:: The Rise of the Theocratic States of America |
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
Introduction
What follows is information from a variety of sources documenting the very
real attempt by the radical religious right to take over the government and
this nation and fashion it in their own image. This is not all the
information there is and more information surfaces almost daily but it is a
good beginning.
The focus here is dual: first highlighting certain items, certain themes
such as Dominions, Reconstructionists and Theocrats – the most extreme
elements of Christianity and the ones who more and more are taking charge
of the Republican Party and the U S Government. The other fucus highlights
the history: how this came about, how it has happened and how certain
personalities and persons have become involved in the past and present.
Some of the goals are outlined and good deal of attention is given to the
attempts to take control of the courts by way of packing or trying to
control the courts by the passage of laws that would restrict such that
would fundamentally alter the nature of our government with its three
independent branches and checks and balances.
There is also a mention in this part that shows how long some folks have
been working at this. It involved the 14th Amendment, selective
incorporation, some law review articles and some books as well as a court
opinion in 1983. The court opinion was Jaffree v. Board of School Com'rs of
Mobile County, 554 F.Supp. 1104 (1983) and how that all fits into this
Part II will go into the Jaffree case in far more detail.
There are some duplications in the various articles that follow.
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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