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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)
[2] Although the concept is older, the exact phrase "separation of church and state" is derived from "wall of separation between Church & State," a term coined by Thomas Jefferson in his 1802 letter to members of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut. [3] The concept was promoted by Enlightenment philosophers such as John ...
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 ...
President Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802 of "a wall of separation". [55] Everson used the metaphor of a wall of separation between church and state, derived from the correspondence of President Thomas Jefferson. It had been long established in the decisions of the Supreme Court, beginning with Reynolds v.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that the First Amendment erected a "wall of separation between church and state" likely borrowing the language from Roger Williams, founder of the First Baptist Church in America and the Colony of Rhode Island, who used the phrase in his 1644 book, The Bloody Tenent of Persecution. [25]
Thomas Jefferson first used the phrase in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. Jefferson emphasized the First Amendment built “a wall of separation between church and state.” ...
Jefferson wrote back to the Danbury Connecticut Baptists and in that letter, Jefferson wrote the now famous phrase "Separation of Church and State," thus, solidly establishing forever the ...
He supported efforts to disestablish the Church of England, [297] wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and he pressed for a wall of separation between church and state. [298] The Republicans under Jefferson were strongly influenced by the 18th-century British Whig Party , which believed in limited government . [ 299 ]