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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 ...
"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".
The separation of church and state is a philosophical and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the ... The new constitution adopted in 1947, ...
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 ...
McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case related to the power of a state to use its tax-supported public school system to aid religious instruction. The case was a test of the separation of church and state with respect to education.
The importance of these efforts is demonstrated by the quote in his Memorial in Washington D.C. from the person most identified with “separation of church and state,” Thomas Jefferson: “God ...
Board of Education (1947), the Court drew on Thomas Jefferson's correspondence to call for "a wall of separation between church and State", a literary but clarifying metaphor for the separation of religions from government and vice versa as well as the free exercise of religious beliefs that many Founders favored. Through decades of contentious ...