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Transcript: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2003 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
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- January 15, 2003
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Each year on January 16, we celebrate Religious Freedom Day in
commemoration of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom
by the Virginia General Assembly, which occurred on this day in 1786.
Drafted
by Thomas Jefferson, this historic law provided the inspiration and
the
framework for the religious freedom clauses in the First Amendment
to the
United States Constitution.
The religious freedom provisions of our Constitution -- the
Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause -- open the first
of
the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. Because the Framers
placed the guarantee of religious freedom before other cherished rights,
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