Quote#Politics & Power
Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left…
Quote byJoseph Story · 1779–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Commentaries on the Consitution (1833), Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Fourth Edition (1873), Vol 2, p. 609, §1879.
English (original)
Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state government, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions; and the Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith, or mode of worship.
— Joseph Story
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