American State Papers Bearing On Sunday Legislation

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American principles are the principles that have made even such re ligious laws as still remain on our statute books, for the most part, dead letters. American principles are the principles that say, to the unbeliever, You have as much right to your Opinion as the believer has to his; that say to the'believer in other religions, You have as much right to speak against the Christian religion in which you do not believe as the Christian has to speak against a religion in which he does not believe; that say to the Sabbatarian, You have as much right to work on Sunday as the Sunday-keeper has to work on Saturday; or, as Herbert Spencer says, every man has the right to the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible 'with the exer cise of like liberty by every other man - a more exact and philo sophical statement of the self - evident truth expressed in the Decla ration of Independence, that All' men are created equal.
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