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Among the Founding Fathers, James Madison was the man who cared most about building an impregnable wall between church and state in the First Amendment. As he observed, "the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one [religious] establishment may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever...
True enough, said the Supreme Court last week, but Mrs. Flast was not arguing about general powers. What bothered her was the specific First Amendment prohibition against an "establishment of religion." By an 8-to-1 vote, the court held that Madison's three pence test was more than satisfied; the New Yorkers, it said, were entitled to try to show that Congress really had breached the church-state wall...
...MICHAEL MADISON...
That at least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
Simon for President. Does it really matter what the Beautiful People think? Yes, in a way. McCarthy might have brought many people to Madison Square Garden all by himself, but a mass of other entertainers helped make the night a smash: the $300,000 take provided more than a third of the entire budget for his California campaign...