Supreme Court usurped power and authority to effectively remove the First Amendment rights of the free exercise of religion and they did this without the vote of Congress and most horribly, they effectively altered the Constitution without a vote of the people as approved and authorized by Congress and the Constitition of the United States of America. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports.
History proves the connection of godly living to good government and a happy people.
Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of Free Government. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. Foreign government bribery of elected officials. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.