Word: fourteenth
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...shining through painted patterns for speckled rainbows on the walls and floor the original five stations by faded paintings on weathered boards, it was all more than a cathedral ceiling vanishing from the eyes quite short of heaven a small chapel in a home a fragment of fourteenth-century Scottish stained glass leaning against a window-beyond, a dry river, trees and rising hills, crucifix a carved root still part of the dry earth, a candle always on a large smooth stone, flat as a simple altar blind Homer, poet liking water and consequent seas...
...might say I was one of the few guys who didn't jump out of windows," he said, smiling. "There used to be a joke: a guy walks into a hotel, asks for a fourteenth floor room and the clerk says, 'Is that for sleeping or for jumping...
...Fourteenth Amendment, conceived as the vehicle for changing slaves into citizens and keeping states from interfering with this transformation, only by fitful and contradictory interpretation and application, finally came to impose all First Amendment guarantees on the individual states...
...State of Connecticut arrested a man named Cantwell for soliciting funds for a religious cause without a license. The U.S. Supreme Court declared for Cantwell: 'The First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Fourteenth Amendment has rendered the legislatures of the states as incompetent as Congress to enact such laws...
...ISSUE of black citizenship occasioned in the Fourteenth Amendment the instrument through which government completed its self-disqualification from competence in religion. The issue of first-class black citizenship possibly occasioned, through the instrumentality of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the beginning of the church's move to reclaim the civil order. When Martin Luther King took to the streets in 1956 to challenge laws of the land, and when masses followed him, and when clergy followed the masses, the new "activist church" entered the headlines and the separated civil and religious orders in America moved from a substantially...