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Essay / Religion and the Constitution of the United States - 1513
No other independent enlightenment in the world authorizes the individual independence of the United States of America. American courts, particularly the Supreme Court, have enhanced a body of legal policies that comprehensively protect all types of power of appearance. When it comes to assessing the level to which people take advantage of the opportunity to express their beliefs, many members of the culture can be held responsible for abusing the boundaries of the First Amendment by openly offending others through the racism or obscenity (Karen O'Connor and Larry J. Sabato 2006). America is what it is because of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America. Ratification of the Constitution ensured that religious dissimilarity would continue to grow in the United States. America has reinforced its different nature regarding the power of speech throughout history. The United States is a spiritually and culturally different nation, and it is perhaps the most religiously different state in the world. It seems difficult for anyone in the United States to imagine that a persecuting state run by the Church could rear its ugly head again. Before the Bill of Rights was ratified, various states, such as Massachusetts, still prosecuted those of other faiths. As a result, those who faced discrimination fled to Rhode Island. In 1791, the first ten amendments were ratified, called the Bill of Rights (Karen O'Connor and Larry J. Sabato 2006). The United States Constitution protects the American legal system in the statute of corporations. This old Constitution still has power in today's world. The Constitution includes a preliminary introduction, seven articles and twenty-seven amendments. ...... middle of paper ...... accused Jefferson of being an atheist. This shows that although all signatories to the constitution believed that religious freedom was essential to the rights of the individual, some disagreed about what role, if any, the Church should play in the government. Even their former political allies, Jefferson and Adams, sharply disagreed on this notion, fueling their rivalry that continued throughout their two presidencies and into the landmark Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison ( Alexander, 2004). Today, if our government needs proof that the separation of church and state helps ensure religious freedom, they need only consider the glut of churches, temples, and shrines that exist in cities and towns across the United States. Only a non-religious government, separate from religion, could allow such dissimilarity..