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  2. Americans United for Separation of Church and State

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    They denounced the Catholic Church for disdaining democracy in the U.S. and worldwide. [10] Officially incorporated on January 29, 1948, [11] the organization aimed to influence political leaders, and began publishing Church & State magazine in 1952 and other materials in support of church-state separation to educate the general public. [12]

  3. Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for ...

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    Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 454 U.S. 464 (1982), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court refused to expand the Flast v. Cohen exception to the taxpayer standing rule.

  4. Separation of church and state in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

  5. Vehementer Nos - Wikipedia

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    The revolution led to a brief separation of church and state in 1795, ended by Napoleon's re-establishment of the Catholic Church as the state religion with the Concordat of 1801. [2] While the Concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it was an attempt on Napoleon's part to win favor with Catholics in France and largely favored the state. [3]

  6. Separation of church and state - Wikipedia

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    The Signing of the Concordat of 1801 between France and the Holy See, 15 July 1801., which was repealed by the 1905 French law on the Separation of Church and State Motto of the French republic on the tympanum of a church in Aups, Var département, which was installed after the 1905 law on the Separation of the State and the Church.

  7. Decree on Separation of Church and State - Wikipedia

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    A copy of the decree . The Decree on Separation of Church from State and School from Church (Russian: Декрет об отделении церкви от государства и школы от церкви [1]) is a legal act adopted by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 20 January (2 February) 1918 came into force on 23 January (5 ...

  8. Category : Church–state separation advocacy organizations

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    This category gathers organizations for which advocacy of church-state separation is a defining aspect of the organization. Organizations that include church-state separation as one of the positions, but are not principally concerned with that work, are not included.

  9. Everson v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    The Myth of Separation: America's Historical Experience with Church and State (Vol. 33, No. 2 ed.). Hofstra Law Review. SSRN 1139183. Finkelman, Paul (2013). Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. Routledge. ISBN 9781135947040. Ivers, Gregg (1995). To build a wall : American Jews and the separation of church and state. University Press of ...