re: #211 sattv4u2

The separation of church and state was clearly Jefferson’s intent. He said so himself:

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”

—Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT. (1 January 1802)