MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE CONSTITUTIONS FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS
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Question
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Americans did not feel they could afford the expense of paying for a state religion.
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Americans belonged to so many different faiths that their leaders decided to keep religion and government separate.
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Americans could not decide whether to create a Protestant or Catholic state religion.
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Most Americans were not religious in the 1790s when the Bill of Rights was passed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our country’s founders–who were of different religious backgrounds themselves–knew the best way to protect religious liberty was to keep the government out of religion. So they created the First Amendment–to guarantee the separation of church and state.
Detailed explanation-2: -It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely.
Detailed explanation-3: -Article 25 reads: (1) Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate religion.