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...those who may subscribe to the view that because the Regents' official prayer is so brief and general there can be no danger to religious freedom in its governmental establishment, it may be appropriate to say in the words of James Madison, the author of the First Amendment: 'It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties...
Others instinctively felt that the Supreme Court was setting forth a new doctrine that distorted the intent of the authors of the First Amendment. Thus Cardinal Spellman called the ruling a "tragic misreading of the prayerfully weighed words of our Founding Fathers." But Founding Father James Madison, among others, interpreted the prohibition against "establishment of religion" far more strictly and sweepingly than the Supreme Court did last week. In Madison's opinion, tax exemption for churches was unconstitutional. So were chaplains for Congress or for the armed forces...
indeed, were presidential proclamations of a religious nature. "Is the appointment of chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom?" Madison asked. "In strictness [the answer] must be in the negative." In shaping the First Amendment, Madison and his fellow founders had melancholy lessons of history in mind. In the Europe that the colonists left behind, state power had often been used to enforce religion, and the results over the centuries had been war, strife and persecution. To assure freedom of religion in the new nation, the founders wrote...
However, when Rockfeller was entering the Madison Hotel, just before the rally, a woman in the crowd leaned over, touched him and whispered "God bless you Mr. President." Rocky's reply...
...since Dolley Madison has the chatelaine of the White House dressed as elegantly, entertained as imaginatively, or so clearly seen both functions as a creative contribution to the success of an Administration. Jackie Kennedy's bouffant hair and back-tilted hats, simple cloth coats and slim-hipped sports slacks have been pirated by women the world over. Few men or women in the world today exercise such influence...