I have examined David Barton’s claim that:
The “separation of church and state” phrase which they invoked, and which has today become so familiar, was taken from an exchange of letters between President Thomas Jefferson and the Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, shortly after Jefferson became President.
My opinion is that:
Who cares? The Reynolds Court in 1878 established the Memorial and Remonstrance of James Madison and the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom as the two primary sources of the principles of religious liberty. The Everson Court in 1947 acknowledged Madison’s authority and drew upon the Memorial and Remonstrance for the legal principles it applied to the issue of government support of religion.
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You should read up on the proper way to post to a thread. You are duplicating quite a few posts to everyone on the thread and it is getting annoying...