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|separation of church and state

|separation of church and state

|1802

|1802

|More than ten years ''after'' the adoption of the [[First Amendment]], the least Christian of the early presidents ([[Thomas Jeffersion]]) used the phrase for the first time in an appeasing letter to Baptists.  The Supreme Court did not endorse this phrase until the liberal Justice [[Hugo Black]] used the term in 1947 (''[[Everson v. Board of Education]]'').  (The Court also quoted from the Jefferson without endorsing the phrase in the 1879 polygamy case of ''[[Reynolds v. United States]]'').

|More than ten years ''after'' the adoption of the [[First Amendment]], the least Christian of the early presidents ([[Thomas Jefferson]]) used the phrase for the first time in an appeasing letter to Baptists.  The Supreme Court did not endorse this phrase until the liberal Justice [[Hugo Black]] used the term in 1947 (''[[Everson v. Board of Education]]'').  (The Court also quoted from the Jefferson without endorsing the phrase in the 1879 polygamy case of ''[[Reynolds v. United States]]'').

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|worldwide