The politician was Winston Churchill!
Concerning contemporary cases about the establishment clause, the defining point in determining constitutionality in Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky seems to be that of
secular versus religious purposes.
For nearly the first 100 years after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court interpreted the equal protection clause to
permit a system of segregated social facilities.
Ancient Egypt had pharaohs as their leaders. Similar to kings, pharaohs were picked by whoever was next in the bloodline. Pharaohs were on top of the social structure, followed by nobles and priests, soldiers, scribes, merchants, artisans, farmers and finally slaves. The pharaoh ranked above everyone else and his word was absolute. The pahraoh was the person who looked over everything. Whatever he said, people had to do.
