Body Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

— Richard Mentor Johnson

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

— Ricardo Alarcon

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

— Lysander Spooner

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

— Clarence Darrow

“In general, the natural dividing line between legislative and nonlegislative power was between rules that bound subjects and those that did not. Legal obligation…

— Philip Hamburger

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are…

— Joseph Story

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

— Elbridge Gerry

No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.

— Lysander Spooner

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…

— Kenneth Waltz

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

— James K. Polk