Subject:  American Minute - September 10th - Joseph Story
Date:  Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:00:52 GMT
American Minute with Bill Federer
September 10

The son of one of the Boston Tea Party "Indians," he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker of the House.
  At age 32, President James Madison appointed him the youngest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  He served 34 years, and helped establish the illegality of the slave trade in the Amistad case.
  His name was Joseph Story, and he died this day, September 10, 1845.
  A founder of the Harvard Law School, Justice Joseph Story stated in Vidal v. Girard's Executors (1844):
  "Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?"
  Justice Joseph Story, having been appointed to the Supreme Court by the person who introduced the First Amendment in Congress, James Madison, commented on the First Amendment in his "Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" (1840):
  "The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects."
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