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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 2121271" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>you'd think that there would be more reference to God in the Constitution if this was true (or in the Declaration of Independence for that matter). Of course, you can just look at what Jefferson had to say about the separation of church and state. </p><p></p><p>“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account </p><p>to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and </p><p>not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared </p><p>that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free </p><p>exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”</p><p>-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT. (1 January 1802) This statement is the origin of </p><p>the often used phrase "separation of Church and State”.</p><p></p><p>This helps give context, as well.</p><p></p><p>“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.”</p><p>-Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764). Published in The Works of </p><p>Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's </p><p>Sons, 1904,, p. 459.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 2121271, member: 277"] you'd think that there would be more reference to God in the Constitution if this was true (or in the Declaration of Independence for that matter). Of course, you can just look at what Jefferson had to say about the separation of church and state. “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, 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.” -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT. (1 January 1802) This statement is the origin of the often used phrase "separation of Church and State”. This helps give context, as well. “Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.” -Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904,, p. 459. [/QUOTE]
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