Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The Atomwaffen, Red Flag Laws, and Creeping Tyranny" video.
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Most of the rights to privileges legal theory can be traced back to a case against the Mormons and religion over polygamy (The Edmunds Act). The SC ruled that the public only had rights up to a certain extent, as ritual murder couldn't be allowed as a religious right, nor anything else that Congress outlawed, which was polygamy in this case.
Another case was the court sighting a letter of Thomas Jefferson about the separation of church and state about prayer in schools. However, Jefferson had no role in writing the Bill of Rights, that was Madison. It is well known that Jefferson and Madison didn't agree on everything.
One such case was the argument about a national bank and war debt between Hamilton and Madison, with Jefferson, caught in between. Hamilton was pro-central bank, Madison was anti-bank, and Jefferson agreed we needed banking, but not central. Jefferson forced a compromise between the other two and the creation of Washington DC was one of the results, as well as a central bank, which later failed.
Jefferson was a deist and did believe in some form of religion, but he believed that religion should have no control of the government, nor should there be a state religion. He didn't state that all religion must be removed from the government. Congress still has a chaplain, one in the House, one in the Senate, and one still swears an oath on the Bible. Yet, they removed prayer from schools.
From then on, the SC has used a similar theory with every other right.
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