...of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. . . . 3. Because, it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all...

..."overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people." The defense of those rights is "the first duty of citizens, and one of [the] noblest characteristics of the late Revolution." To allow public funds to be used to support the teaching of the Christian religion would deny the very...

...governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They...

...freedoms is an inescapably corrosive one. James Madison wisely warned his Virginia colleagues in 1785 that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." The concept of partial or limited suppression is a mischievous one — barring just one speaker whose...

...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. Because it is proper to take alarm at the lirst experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent...late revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They...

...derived from them, and are slaves. "3. Because it is properto take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be...late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They...

...history has taught us that our freedoms are very delicate and must be shielded from all intrusions. "[l]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties,'' advised James Madison, who was the principal author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That...

...however, it may be appropriate to say in the words of James Madison, the author of the First Amendment: [I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all...

...action was no real threat to religious liberty, the justice quoted James Madison's admonition that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."84 Stewart, the lone dissenter, pointed to many instances in which God's blessings were...

...eloquent American expressions of this concern with uncabinable principles is also among the earliest: [I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They...