[lawdog]

If your gonna go with the " of church and state" premise. Your hero is Justice Hugo Black ( circa 1947 ) not Jefferson or Madison. Black was one of the libs packed into the court by that other usurper of the Constitution FDR.

[kesg]

No, my heros here are Jefferson and Madison (among others). Jefferson originally coined the phrase "separation of church and state" in a letter explaining the establishment clause.