Correct, There have Christians, and a few Deists, and some that claim no affiliation.
One things the Constitution does say that leaned to racist side was the way the census was counted. It was called the three-fifths compromise. The south wanted their slaves counted when it came to proportional representation and not counted when it came to taxes. The North wanted the slaves counted for both, some just for taxes. What was settled on was that the total would come from the whole of all the free persons and 3/5 of the others. That is really the only thing. If I am not mistaken it has not been changed. Although there have been amendments that abolished slavery and other discriminations based on race,sex, color, religion, etc.. At 06:10 PM 12/18/2001 +0000, you wrote: >well quite....but that's a whole different story!! ;) > >My original question was in relation to the debate on racism and whether or >not it exists in American society. I was interested to know if such a >restriction existed in the constitution. Evidently not, although the >requirement that you must be a 'natural born american' would obviously >restrict immigrants. It is true, though, that there have been no Muslim, >Jewish, Hindu or whatever presidents. > >will ________________________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
