Judiciary: Is There Hope for the Federal Courts?

the early states had estabhshed churches,rnand even the federal Constitution —rnwhich sought scrupulously not to favorrnparticular religious establishments orrnsectarian creeds—contained several referencesrnto our shared Christian heritage.rnThe First Amendment, which guaranteedrnfreedom of religion and forbadernCongress from legislating "an establishmentrnof religion," was not—as most nowrnwrongly believe—an attempt . . .