'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ' Those sixteen words provide the framework for how we deal with religion in our public schools."

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The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

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However,he said no federal law could make slavery legal in a territory where the people did not want it.

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Freedom of expression was also a topic for Lewis in his 1991 book, "Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, " about a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision that protected news organizations from some libel suits.

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But the existence of federal regulation furnishes no reason to make state common law governing the employer-employee relationship more intrusive.

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Samuel Issacharoff, whose specialty is Constitutional law, told me there is certainly no federal law or Constitutional provision establishing a universal right to make campaign contributions.

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