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638. AUTHORITY, Religion and Federal.—[continued].

No power to prescribe any
religious exercise, or to assume authority in
religious discipline, has been delegated to the
General Government. It must then rest with
States, so far as it can be in any human authority.—
To Rev. Samuel Miller. Washington ed. v, 237. Ford ed., ix, 174.
(W. 1808)