<p>Unluckycharms - our constitution never promised separation of church and state.</p>
<p>Benjamin Franklin wrote about it in a letter trying to gain support and was referring to religious persecution</p>
<p>Religious freedom was most definitely promised in our bill of rights, however.</p>
<p>The election is over, the results are now known.
The will of the people has clearly been shown.
We should show by our thoughts, our words and our deeds
That unity is just what our country needs.
Let's all get together. Let bitterness pass.
I'll hug your elephant.
You kiss my ass. </p>
<p>~anon</p>
<p>moderate republican...fiscally conservative, socially eh...depends</p>
<p>ha ha</p>
<p>I'm a fiscal conservative and a social uber liberal</p>
<p>my mom says that if you are not a democrat in your twenties you have no heart, but if you are not a republican by fourty you have no brain.</p>
<p>actually Winston Churchill says that</p>
<p>JaneGalt
Actually it was Thomas Jefferson that wrote the letter</p>
<p>packerfan, when the south rises, it will be with the help of all states that support the same causes.</p>
<p>Actually in the quote that Churchill gave, Democrat should be switched with Liberal and Republican with Conservative.</p>
<p>okay....the correcting can stop now. you have officially ruined the point of the post.
congrats fun police</p>
<p>Some things are important to correct. I am not nitpicking grammar, only factuality.</p>
<p>I know that he switched liberals for Democrats and conservatives for Republicans but I was just going for the general idea</p>
<p>I figured you did, but just for all the other people..</p>
<p>One day, my history teacher, who is not too bright in my opinion, was speaking...Someone asked what parties conservative and liberal match to...He said, "Conservatives are Deomcrats, and liberals are Republicans..." I made sure to tell my AP gov. teacher what my history teacher had said...She couldn't believe it...</p>
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<p>Well, <em>technically</em> he is correct (if you were referring to the time of slavery) as much of the south was dominated by conservative pro-slavery democrats and the new Republican party was the "liberal" one who wanted to halt the expansion of slavery.</p>