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“The number-one purpose for our government 
is to protect property and the number-one 
property to protect is our right of conscience.”

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David Barton’s words explain a truth found 
in America’s founding documents—

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yet it’s something that is misunderstood 
by many Americans and leaders today.

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Barton defined these “rights of conscience” 
as our constitutional “right to believe differently 
on issues of religious faith.”

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John Jay, America’s first Chief Justice, 
stated, “Security under our constitution 
is given to the rights of conscience…

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They are by nature subject to no control 
but that of Deity [the Lord].” Whether or 
not you believe in God,

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you have a constitutional right to hold that 
belief. I’m Mac Hammond, and this is the 
Winner’s Minute.