Separation of ACLU and State By Monty Rainey February 2, 2005 For over 150 years after the drafting of the First Amendment, only a select hand full of cases found their way before the Supreme Court. That all changed radically in 1947 with the the now infamous Everson v. Board of Education case in which Justice Hugo Black et. al. wrongly construed Thomas Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" metaphor and the Court offered its first ever comprehensive interpretation of the constitutional pronouncement on church-state relations. In Black's opinion, all of the privileges and immunities of of citizens recognized in the Bill...