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Separation of Church & State

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In Jefferson's letter to a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association of January 1, 1802, he clearly made the point of the separation of church and state, which he referred to as a wall of separation between church and state (Thomas Jefferson's). The letter set forth Jefferson's opinion that religion was a personal matter between a man and his god and that the government had no authority to place rules or laws over it. He believed the government should not make any laws respecting an established religion, or prohibit the free exercise of religion, and this is what he called the wall of separation, by which he believed he was expressing the extreme will of the nation. In a letter to Samuel Miller on January 23, 1808, he wrote:

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