D. Would you say that Gladstone’s statement, “It is the greatest work ever struck off at any one time by the mind and purpose of man” was literally true? E. How did the allusions to other countries made during the convention show the advantage of America’s being a “melting pot”? F. What people were allowed to vote at the time of the adoption of the Constitution? G. What were the chief objections urged against ratification of the Constitution? H. Write a paper on the following: Why the People Needed a Constitution The Main Points Included A Comparison of the Work Done Then and the Outline Made in Answers to Questions J Chapter Two George Washington Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton James Madison IX. FREEDOM How Freedom Of Worship, Speech, The Press, And Assembly Are Guaranteed This morning we begin the consideration of what I believe to be the most important of all the subjects we have talked about. I think people are more interested in their privileges and rights than they are in their duties. In fact we hear a great deal and we read a great deal about “rights”, but we do not find very much said on the streets, in the homes, or in the newspapers about our “duties”.(48) Now we have considered in a very general way the nature of our government and something of our powers and duties under the Constitution. I know that you will be interested in considering our rights and privileges under the Constitution of the United States. Always keep in mind that each State has a Constitution, and that the Nation has a Constitution, that the Constitution of the United States covers the entire Nation, not only the original thirteen colonies, but the present forty-eight States, and that any States that may hereafter be brought in the Union will have as their fundamental law the Constitution adopted by the people in the long ago.(49) Also always keep in mind that the Nation has certain powers, and that the Constitution of the United States is supreme only as to the things over which the United States as a Nation has control. But it is important to bear in mind that the great principles of the Constitution of the United States have been carried into the Constitutions of the various States, and that the rights and privileges of the people under the Constitution of the United States have also to a large extent been guaranteed by the Constitutions of the States.(50) This morning we take up a constitutional guaranty which you perhaps have not thought much about, but which is one of the most important in the whole Constitution—_Freedom of Worship_. The Constitution provides: _“__Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.__”_(51)