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Could Meese Be Right This Time?
Levinson, Sanford | December 20, 1986 issue

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the Constitution, belongs to a long tradition of American political rhetoric that equates the Constitution with more conventional objects of worship. Such comparisons help to understand recurrent debates about the most fundamental aspects of the Constitution. The rich history of disagreement in organized Christianity also sheds light on this discussion. Certain recent speeches by Attorney General Edwin Meese are the most important, if not necessarily the most articulate, affirmations of a strain of Protestantism that has always been part of the American constitutional debate.

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UNITED States. Constitution; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; CHRISTIANITY; MEESE, Edwin; PROTESTANTISM; UNITED States
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