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14 Dec 2003 07:27:41 AM |
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Proposed Amendment #28 (1999) |
FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE URLS
The religious right extremists never give up. It is obvious they either
can't read the U S Constitution or American history, or they don't want
the current constitutional form of government.
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Posted: 6/21/1999
The Actual House Debate on the Ten Commandments
In case you weren't up late that night.
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:Ku6aAl9KYkoJ:www.witchvox.com/cases/10c_debate.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
The Text of Amendment No.28:
http://www.witchvox.com/cases/10c_amendment.html
The Actual House Debate on the Ten Commandments
In case you weren't up late that night.
After Midnight...
http://www.witchvox.com/cases/10c_debate.html
Changing The Constitution:
A Commentary by Wren Walker
http://www.witchvox.com/cases/10c_overview.html
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The Text of Amendment No.28:
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 28
printed in part A of House Report 106-186. (H4364-4469)
AMENDMENT NO. 28 OFFERED BY MR. ADERHOLT
Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
The CHAIRMAN pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
The text of the amendment is as follows:
Part A amendment No. 28 offered by Mr. Aderholt:
Add at the end the following new title:
TITLE XX--RIGHTS TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
SEC. XX. FINDINGS.
EC. XX. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Declaration of Independence declares that governments are
instituted to secure certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, with which all human beings are endowed by
their Creator and to which they are entitled by the laws of nature and of
nature's God.
(2) The organic laws of the United States Code and the constitutions
of every State, using various expressions, recognize God as the source of
the blessings of liberty.
(3) The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
secures rights against laws respecting an establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof made by the United States Government.
(4) The rights secured under the First Amendment have been
interpreted by courts of the United States Government to be included among
the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
(5) The Tenth Amendment reserves to the States respectively the
powers not delegated to the United States Government nor prohibited to the
States.
(6) Disputes and doubts have arisen with respect to public displays
of the Ten Commandments and to other public expression of religious faith.
(7) Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment grants the Congress power
to enforce the provisions of the said amendment.
(8) Article I, Section 8, grants the Congress power to constitute
tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, and Article III, Section 1, grants
the Congress power to ordain and establish courts in which the judicial
power of the United States Government shall be vested.
SEC. XX. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY RIGHTS DECLARED.
(a) Display of Ten Commandments: The power to display the Ten
Commandments on or within property owned or administered by the several
States or political subdivisions thereof is hereby declared to be among the
powers reserved to the States respectively.
(b) Expression of Religious Faith: The expression of religious faith
by individual persons on or within property owned or administered by the
several States or political subdivisions thereof is hereby"
(1) declared to be among the rights secured against laws
respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of
religion made or enforced by the United States Government or by any
department or executive or judicial officer thereof; and
(2) declared to be among the liberties of which no State shall
deprive any person without due process of law made in pursuance of powers
reserved to the States respectively.
(c) Exercise of Judicial Power: The courts constituted, ordained, and
established by the Congress shall exercise the judicial power in a manner
consistent with the foregoing declarations.
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