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Pursuit Of Happiness Declaration Of Independence
4,209 wordsSadly, modern Americans seem to have done a better job preserving what Thomas Jefferson has left us in bricks and mortar than we have preserving his ideas. Tourists visiting Charlottesville, Virginia, can witness firsthand the ongoing efforts to preserve Jefferson's home at Monticello as well as his splendid little "Academical Village, " the Lawn, which is still a vital center of student life at the University of Virginia. Further down the road, near Lynchburg, Virginia, preservationists have be...
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Congress Shall Make Respecting An Establishment
1,626 wordsWhen schools first opened hundreds of years ago prayer was always enforced, and the Bible was the only book most schools had to read. Our first constitutional right states that we have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and as our right the government can not tell us when it is appropriate to pray. The government is only taking away yet another right making us weaker and themselves stronger. The bible being the first book in education, the first amendment, moment of silence ...
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The Influence Of Christianity On Modern American Culture
2,008 wordsThe question of whether or not America is a Christian country seems to be evident at a first hand glance. Religion, especially Christianity, has been in America before it was even called America. Christianity is the most popular religion in America today, counting all of the different denominations together. But in the last century its growth has slowed down. The United States of America is the most religiously diverse country in the world today. Over the last hundred years or so America has see...
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Respecting An Establishment Prayer In Schools
1,188 wordsPrayer in Schools Prayer in schools is a very controversial issue these days, and it is held dearly in the hearts of many people in America. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was passed on December 15, 1791. The amendment states that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the gover...
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Separation Of Church And State Establishment Of Religion
937 wordsShould the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools? October 1 st, 1997 -A 16 -year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1 st, 1997 -Three students are killed and five injured as a 14 -year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. March 24 th 1998 -Four students and a teacher shot to death during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas. April 20...
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