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'''Joseph Story''' (1779-1845) was an Associate Justice of the [[United States Supreme Court]] and a founder of [[Harvard Law School]].  He was appointed to the Supreme Court by the so-called "Father of our Constitution," President [[James Madison]].   
 
'''Joseph Story''' (1779-1845) was an Associate Justice of the [[United States Supreme Court]] and a founder of [[Harvard Law School]].  He was appointed to the Supreme Court by the so-called "Father of our Constitution," President [[James Madison]].   
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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): <blockquote>"Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the [[New Testament]]?"</blockquote>  
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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): <blockquote>"Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the [[New Testament]]?"</blockquote>  
    
In his "Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" Justice Story noted, <blockquote>"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."</blockquote>
 
In his "Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" Justice Story noted, <blockquote>"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."</blockquote>
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Joseph Story said the following about the [[Second Amendment]] right to keep and bear arms:<ref>3 J. Story, Commentaries sec. 1890, p. 746 (1833).</ref>
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:The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
     
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