Self-Government, the American Way

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : President Washington underscored Americans' religious freedom by writing to every major religious denomination in the country during his first term in office, affirming American religious liberty even before the First Amendment solemnized it.
50% : To understand American self-government, one should begin with the First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
50% : Washington's letters display two indispensable features of American religious freedom.
42% : All of this means that the freedoms protected by the First Amendment comport with every aspect of the American Founding, an attempt to design governments that secure natural rights for American citizens.
40% : If such institutions are fused with such engines of rule as executive power, including police and military forces, legislative power including taxation, and judicial power including imprisonment and capital punishment, those engines will more readily demand unquestioned obedience from subjects.

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