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Liberals insist that requires prohibiting classroom prayer, crosses on public property, a national day of prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and other expressions of religion in public life.  Conservatives reject that view, and observe that the Establishment Clause merely prohibits the federal government from establishing and funding a particular religion.

Liberals insist that requires prohibiting classroom prayer, crosses on public property, a national day of prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and other expressions of religion in public life.  Conservatives reject that view, and observe that the Establishment Clause merely prohibits the federal government from establishing and funding a particular religion.

Notice that there is no statement about a "wall of separation between church and state" anywhere in the Constitution.  That phrase was taken from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote later, after the Constitution and Bill of Rights were adopted, to a small group of Baptists who were unusually opposed to any cooperation between churches and government.  Jefferson was not even at the Constitutional Convention or involved in the drafting of the Bill of Rights, and the misuse of his letter illustrates the defects in going beyond the text of a law to interpret it.

Notice that there is no statement about a "wall of separation between church and state" anywhere in the Constitution.  That phrase was taken from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote later, after the Constitution and Bill of Rights were adopted, to a small group of Baptists who were unusually opposed to any cooperation between churches and government.  Jefferson was not even at the Constitutional Convention or involved in the drafting of the Bill of Rights, and the misuse of his letter illustrates a flaw in going beyond the text of a law to interpret it.

=== Fourth Amendment ===

=== Fourth Amendment ===