When he comes to his defense of English institutions ("an established Church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy, and an established democracy"), he says: "First I beg leave to speak of our Church Establishment, which is the first of our prejudices-not a prejudice destitute of reason, but involving in it profound and extensive wisdom. In 1790 Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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In its legal form (there are other forms, as I shall later say) the solution is deposited in the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." What then is the Catholic view of this constitutional proviso? It concerns the American solution to the problem put by the plurality of conflicting reli. We come therefore to the second question. I use the word "doctrine" as lawyers or political philosophers, not theologians, use it. All this, I take it, is integral to the meaning attached in America to the doctrine of religious freedom and to its instrumental companion-doctrine called (not felicitously) separation of church and state. And the two orders, the religious and the civil, remain distinct, however much they are, and need to be, related. Neither may undertake to destroy the other. In a word, the pluralism remains as real as the unity. The one civil society contains within its own unity the communities that are divided among themselves but it does not seek to reduce to its own unity the differences that divide them.
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Similarly, the public consensus, on which civil unity is ultimately based, must permit to the differing communities the full integrity of their own religious convictions.
This civil unity therefore must not hinder the various religious communities in American society in the maintenance of their own distinct identities. It does not go beyond the exigencies of civil conversation, taken in the sense already defined. THE UNITY ASSERTED IN THE AMERICAN DEVICE, "E pluribus unum" (as I have adapted its meaning) is a unity of a limited order. 2 Civil Unity and Religious Integrity The Articles of Peace Booth Family Center for Special Collections.Rare Books, Manuscripts, Art & Archives.
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