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To: Lancey Howard
No, I'd say that you do, if that's where you're getting your stuff. :)

To be fair, if the book whose cover you posted was published before 1801, Mark might have been the one to coin the phrase. ;>)

Come on, every FReeper worth his/her salt knows the phrase came from Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1801, and that the first mention of the 'separation of Church and State' first appeared in a SCOTUS decision in the 1880's.

You need to take that up with Mark Levin.

61 posted on 12/16/2004 7:50:14 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: Ready4Freddy; Lancey Howard
I won't presume to speak for LH, but IMO he was referring to the first instance of an SC justice using it in a decision. Could be wrong.

...and that the first mention of the 'separation of Church and State' first appeared in a SCOTUS decision in the 1880's.

You forgot to link your source.

FGS

69 posted on 12/16/2004 8:12:24 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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