MORE THAN A CLOSET NEUROLOGIST...

TOM DELAY IS ALSO A CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR:

Transcript of interview with Tom DeLay
THE WASHINGTON TIMES 4/14/05
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050413-111439-5048r.htm

Mr. DeLay: The reason the judiciary has been able to impose a separation of church and state that's nowhere in the Constitution is that Congress didn't stop them. The reason we had judicial review is because Congress didn't stop them. The reason we had a right to privacy is because Congress didn't stop them.

NOTE: Aside from the 1st Amendment, there's also this provision:
Article VI.
Clause 3: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

This nonsense from DeLay shows again the wisdom of our Founding Fathers:
“It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."2”
Alexander Hamilton, Saturday, June 14, 1788, The Federalist No. 78
1. The celebrated Montesquieu, speaking of them, says: "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing." -- Spirit of Laws. Vol. I, page 186.
2. Idem, page 181.

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa78.htm