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Originally Posted by anastrophe
um, while i don't subscribe to her views, the fact is, nowhere in the constitution does it maintain that there must be separate of church and state.
if you can quote where it says "separation of church and state", i'll eat my hat.
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Is this a trick question?
Of course the Constitution does not use those specific words but the First Ammendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The separation is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a group called the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, he quotes the First Amendment and writes: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Letter to Danbury Baptists (1802)
Do I pass?
