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How Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” Redefined Church-State Law and Policy
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How Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” Redefined Church-State Law and Policy

No metaphor in American letters has had a greater influence on law and policy than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between Church and State.”  Many Americans accept it as a pithy description of the constitutionally prescribed Church-State arrangement, and it has become the locus classicus of the notion that the First Amendment separated religion and...