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The First Clause of the First Amendment: Politics and Religion

One afternoon in the summer of 1910, the torpedo boat USS Bagley (TB-24) made her way from the docks at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and down the Severn River to the Chesapeake Bay. The  Bagleys design harkened back to the spar torpedo boats of the Civil War, and spent many of her days in reserve or as a training ship for the Naval Academy. But that day her mission was different. In a world first for destroyer-type ships, the Bagley was carrying an airplane on top of a spec...