University of Virginia Library

7229. RELIGION, Freedom of.—[further continued]..

One of the amendments
to the Constitution * * * expressly declares,
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”;
thereby guarding in the same sentence, and
under the same words, the freedom of religion,
of speech and of the press; insomuch,
that whatever violates either, throws down
the sanctuary which covers the others.—
Kentucky Resolutions. Washington ed. ix, 466. Ford ed., vii, 295.
(1798)