Often my students will ask an obvious question: Why is there a gap in centuries between the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 and the case of Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) which, for the first time in the nation's history, determined that the Amendment's religion clauses apply to state and local laws.
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