THE SECOND AMMENDMENT, THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS GIVES THE PEOPLE THE ABILITY TO PROTECT ALL OF THE REST!!!!!!
2007-03-17 18:46:33
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answered by Voice of Liberty 5
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The First and Second Amendments. Freedoms of speech and belief are the starting point for a free society. and WE THE PEOPLE, being the highest authority in this Republic, should always retain whatever power we have to keep a bullet behind every ballot.
The opposite of church-state separation is called caesaropapism. It means that civil power and religious power are hand in glove. How well does it work?
Well, in the centuries of the Byzantine empire, Christianity ruled. The city of Constantinople was bristling with churches. And they suffered the worst urban rioting in the history of the world. And they produced little of lasting value. They destroyed the Academy of Plato, which had lasted 900 years, when they decided that Christian orthodoxy left no need for a secular university.
Then there are the California Indians. The Franciscan missionaries shattered the native belief system and replaced it with Roman Catholic mysticism. This gutted the indigenous culture and turned the Indians into virtual slaves. Over the era of mission-building, the population of the Californians fell by about 90 per cent. By dissolving the people's religious belief system, the missionaries destroyed a people and their culture. That is genocide, yet to this day the facts of that era are seldom taught. The truth of what happens when religious freedom is lost and merged with civil power, is still kept swept under the rug.
The founders knew full well what they were doing when they built that wall of separation - which idea was not at all new when Jefferson wrote it but had been taught for at least 150 years since Roger Williams had to flee the cesaropapism of Massachusetts. Separationism is also very clearly voiced by most of the founders in their correspondence.
So yes, the First Amendment, backed up by the Second.
2007-03-18 03:36:58
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answered by fra59e 4
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Freedom of religion so I can choose what church to go to or not go at all without the government telling me when, and who, and where, I should worship.
2007-03-18 04:20:27
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answered by Anonymous
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the right to hang a pair of bear arms in every house.
2007-03-18 01:46:17
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answered by ihate c 4
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