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NEW YORK (AP) — Hours after ABC News released the rules for the Sept. 10 presidential debate, resolving a final dispute in Donald Trump’s favor, the former ...
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A required 100-question licensing test about historical sites for tour guides in Washington D.C. violated the free speech rights in the First Amendment, an appellate court ruled in a 2014 case.
...In 1612, just a year after the publication of the King James Version of the Bible in English, Baptist minister Thomas Helwys published “A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity” which has come to be known as the first exposition in English of the notion of freedom of conscience or religious liberty.
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