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President John Adams echoed the same principle:<ref>9 The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States 229 (Charles Francis Adams, ed. 1854).</ref> "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

President John Adams echoed the same principle:<ref>9 The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States 229 (Charles Francis Adams, ed. 1854).</ref> "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Nothing in the First Amendment requires censorship of the Ten Commandments, which neither establishes a religion nor coerces anyone to believe.  Those who oppose the moral message may feign offense, but appeasing the hypersensitive is not a goal of the First Amendment.  Its prohibition on an establishment of religion does not require purging recognition of religion from everything public.  Federal law expressly references God numerous times, as do our coins and officials’ oaths of office.  The United States Supreme Court itself features Moses holding the sacred tablets.

Nothing in the First Amendment requires censorship of the Ten Commandments, which neither establishes a religion nor coerces anyone to believe.  Those who oppose the moral message may feign offense, but appeasing the hypersensitive is not a goal of the First Amendment.  Its prohibition on an establishment of religion does not require purging recognition of religion from everything public.  Federal law expressly references God numerous times, as do our coins and officials’ oaths of office.  The U.S. Supreme Court itself features Moses holding the sacred tablets of the Ten Commandments.  But the Court banned them from public schools.

The bottom line is this:  the Establishment Clause as originally written does not prohibit public school classroom prayer and religious symbols on government property, but the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Establishment Clause to prohibit this.

The bottom line is this:  the Establishment Clause as originally written does not prohibit public school classroom prayer and religious symbols on government property, but the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Establishment Clause to prohibit this.

'''NOTE''': do not confuse the Establishment Clause with the Free Exercise Clause, which follows the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise thereof ....”

'''NOTE''': do not confuse the Establishment Clause with the separate Free Exercise Clause, which follows the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise thereof ....”

===Free Speech Clause===

===Free Speech Clause===