"Under God"

[Conkle, Daniel O.]

Bryan Wildenthal includes the following notation in his posting:
Thomas Jefferson School of Law (a school named for a President, need I
point out, who would have been deeply troubled by a state-mandated
"under God" patriotic pledge)
It may be relevant to note -- perhaps in support of each position on
this issue? -- that Jefferson's famous Bill for Religious Liberty was
expressly predicated, in its preamble, on the proposition that "Almighty
God hath created the mind free" and that compelled religion is "a
departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being
Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it
by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do."

Dan Conkle
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Indiana University School of Law
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