The meaning has not changed in the last thirty years or two hundred. for the press or religious values.
| “To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and every-day life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.” |
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| — Ronald Reagan, March 15, 1982, in an address to the Alabama State Legislature |
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