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September 10, 1845, was the death of Justice Joseph Story. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by the "Father of our Constitution," President James Madison. Justice Story was the son of one of the Boston Tea Party 'Indians,'he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker of the House. A founder of the Harvard Law School, Justice Story stated in Vidal v. Girard's Executors (1844): 'Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?' "

In his "Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" Justice Story noted, "The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects."
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