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to church, i
Now, "Not even -three pence should be granted
by the State to any church," Madison said.
Now we are trying to reach an understanding
of what Madison's famous phrase regarding establishment of
church really means. The report of the committee I feel
is quite skimpy on this subject, and it contents itself
largely with a brief quotation from the Emerson case and a
citation of a few other cases. It behooves us, I think,
to take into account the warning of the Maryland Court
of Appeals in the Horace Mann case, when it said this:
"The problem to be considered and solved when
the first amendment was proposed was not one of hazy or
comparative insignificance, but was one of blunt and stark
reality which had perplexed and plagued the nations of
civilization for 14 centuries, and during that long period
of the union of church and State the government of man has
produced neither peace on earth nor good will to men."
NQW, I take it that we cannot possibly solve here
all of the complicated problems relating to separation
of church and State. There are too many issues involved,