September/October 1998

Completing the Constitution 0
- September/October 1998
- September 1, 1998
Suppose the Texas legislature, responding to the will of the majority, denied citizens the right to criticize the government? Suppose Marylanders voted to make Roman Catholicism the official religion? Suppose Kentucky required anyone running for public office to profess belief in the Trinity and the deity of Christ? Supposed Oregon outlawed the practice of Judaism
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The Woodcarver 0
- September/October 1998
- September 1, 1998
The Holy Mother stands silently, frozen in time, gazing softly at the Infant on her right hip. Her left hand gently gathers the soft folds of her flowing robe. She wears a crown. It is not gaudy or bejeweled. It is regal, yet understated. The Baby holds a small cluster of tiny, perfectly carved grapes
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A Ride Down Sixteenth Street, N.W.0
- September/October 1998
- September 1, 1998
Some monuments, however, are not facades of freedom, but the face of it; not distortions of ideals, but their embodiment; not expressions of greatness, but its very manifestation. And nowhere is the face of America's freedoms and the manifestation of the greatness of its ideals better revealed than along Sixteenth Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C.
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Ku Klux Icon 0
- September/October 1998
- September 1, 1998
While a student at the University of Alabama in 1952, I interned with a national public accounting firm in Atlanta. On my way to work I sometimes passed what was probably the first "adult" store I had ever seen. I remember a large sign out front with quotes from opinions of U. S. Supreme Court
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