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maxudargo

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Wed Dec-22-04 05:08 PM
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3. The very first phrase of the First Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "a wall of separation" to describe the principle, which is where "separation of church and state" comes from.

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