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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".
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]
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Commonly referred to as the “Separation of Church and State,” the First Amendment of the Constitution explicitly bans the United States from establishing any form of State religion. Borne out ...
Separation of church and state is different from separation of faith and state. The Constitution says nothing about prohibiting the free exercise of faith in how people vote, or for what they ...
In Spain, commentators have posited that the form of church-state separation enacted in France in 1905 and found in the Spanish Constitution of 1931 are of a "hostile" variety, noting that the hostility of the state toward the church was a cause of the breakdown of democracy and the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
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.
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.