:|I stand by my statement concerning your baseless assertion about the
:|10th Amendment.
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:|Again, you're perverting logic by stubbornly refusing to accept that
:|the 10th automatically reserved the power to legislate religion to the
:|States since the 1st Amendment explicitly prohibited this power only to
:|Congress (federal government; aka United States) and no amendment
:|explicitly prohibited the power to legislate religion to the States.
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:|"Article 14, section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United
:|States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
:|United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make
:|or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
:|citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person
:|of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to
:|any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
:|
:|You ignore that, unlike the 1st Amendment which explicitly prohibits
:|Congress from making certain kinds of laws, religious laws for example,
:|section 1 of the 14th actually puts a general on all the laws that the
:|States can make; the 14th doesn't even mention religion. Justice Reed
:|described the checks and balance relationships between the 1st, 10th
:|and 14th Amendments.
:|
:|"Conflicts in the exercise of rights arise and the conflicting forces
:|seek adjustments in the courts, as do these parties, claiming on the
:|one side the freedom of religion, speech and the press, guaranteed by
:|the Fourteenth Amendment, and on the other the right to employ the
:|sovereign power explicitly reserved to the State by the Tenth Amendment
:|to ensure orderly living without which constitutional guarantees of
:|civil liberties would be a mockery." --Justice Reed, Jones v. City of
:|Opelika 1942
:|
:|The States have the constitutional power (10th) to authorize public
:|schools to lead non-mandatory (14th) classroom discussions about the
:|pros and cons of evolution, creationism and irreducible complexity, for
:|example, regardless that anti-religious expression Justices and the
:|liberal press have misled the American people to think that doing so is
:|unconstitutional.
:|
:|In fact, I disagree with Jefferson's note concerning religion classes
:|being deemed requisite:
:|
:|"Thus we have teachers of languages, teachers of mathematics, of
:|natural philosophy, of chemistry, of medicine, of law, of history, of
:|government, etc. Religion, too, is a separate department, and happens
:|to be the only one deemed requisite for all men, however high or low."
:|--Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815.
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