From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 11 10:52:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19264 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19255; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id NAA18024; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:52:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:52:31 -0400 Message-Id: <199708111752.NAA18024@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu CC: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199708110951.FAA12121@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> (devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu) Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> (The Constitutional question of separation of church and state is >> pretty much taken care of by giving the vouchers to the parents and >> not directly to the schools, although some people still consider it >> unconstitutional.) > My understanding is that the Constiution doesn't actually demand > a seperation of church and state; it's just htat some liberals would > like you to believe that. Whether it is formally in the laws or not, it is a fundamental principle on which our nation is founded. > Furthurmore, I think that the original arguement was that we wanted > to prevent the government from affecting the churches, not hte otherway > around. Remember the Holy Roman Empire? Or the pre-Luther Catholic Church? The idea is decentralization of power, no matter which power that may be. Cheers, joelh -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped