During the Civil War, a coalition of eleven Protestant denominations from the Northern states directed their anger at the ______ in the First Amendment and sought to alter the wording of the Preamble of the Constitution
a. Establishment Clause
b. Free Exercise Clause
c. right of free speech
d. right of free press
e. right to peacefully assemble
ANS: A
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