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Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (New York University Press, 2003) Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall. The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund Press, 2009)
The “wall of separation” description is found in a Jan. 1, 1802, letter from President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury, Connecticut, Baptist Association: “Believing with you that religion is ...
In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:
Jefferson sought what he called a "wall of separation between Church and State", which he believed was a principle expressed by the First Amendment. Jefferson's phrase has been cited several times by the Supreme Court in its interpretation of the Establishment Clause, including in cases such as Reynolds v. United States (1878), Everson v.
Jefferson emphasized the First Amendment built “a wall of separation between church and state.” In these days of instant news and Tik Tok sound bites, optics are everything and everywhere.
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1935-0. Royal C. Gilkey, "The Problem of Church and State in Terms of the Nonestablishment and Free Exercise of Religion", William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 9, Issue I, 1967, 149-165; Scarberry, Mark S. (April 2009).
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) pushed back Tuesday on the belief that there should be separation between church and state on the U.S., arguing that the founding fathers wanted faith to be a “big ...
Th Jefferson Jan. 1. 1802 [5] This doctrine, known as the "wall of separation" or "strict separationism," would later become highly influential in 20th century Supreme Court understandings of the relationship between church and state.