No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority. (Thomas Jefferson)

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Thomas Jefferson

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