INITIAL FIRST AMENDMENT PROPOSALS OF JAMES MADISON, JUNE 8, 1789:
“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.”
(Annals of the Congress of the United States – First Congress, Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1834, Vol I, p. 434