1.0 link 36907 <![CDATA[Swearing on the Koran]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/swearing-on-the-koran_b_36907.html Jacob Henry, a Jew who was elected to North Carolina's legislature in 1808, but was blocked from taking his seat by a law requiring him to accept the divinity of the New Testament, posed the following rhetorical question:

"Will you drive from your shores and from the shelter of your constitution all who do not lay their oblations on the same altar, observe the same ritual, and subscribe to the same dogmas? If so, which among the various sects into which...
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