Which of the terms below matches each picture? Why? (Use 4 out of 6 terms). 1 3 Elastic Clause Federalism Separation Church and State Three-fifths clause 2 4 Great Compromise 10th amendment Supremacy clause Read the following statements. Then talk through the questions below with your partner(s). Write a collectively created answer to each of the questions. “Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than face or stature ... Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advance one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of the coercion (to force someone to do something)? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.” Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom “ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” John Adams “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” First Amendment to the US Constitution. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. Article XI, Treaty with Tripoli after the Barbary Wars, read aloud in the US Senate and unanimously approved. John Adams signed it. 1. In the Jefferson quote, who would be a hypocrite? Who would be a fool? Why? 2. Explain how you think Adams might defend the seeming hypocrisy between his first quote and signing Article XI. 3. On a scale of 1 (the US might as well be the Taliban (religious extremists in Afghanistan who historically will not let women work or go to school)) to 10 (the US has complete religious freedom), rate the status of the separation of church and state in today’s political culture. Explain your reasoning.
