Separation of Church and State (mirror)

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https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1824463985581912233
"The separation of Church and state is nowhere in the Constitution.

The Establishment Clause was to prevent competing denominations from becoming the state religion (Presbyterians, Anglicans, etc.)

55 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration were Christians."

Thomas Jefferson's 'A Wall of Separation' letter to Danbury Baptist Association, article at Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html

The separation of church and state is not in the U.S. Constitution. It is spoken of in the Treaty of Tripoli (1796 Article 11). https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp

The Table below contains the Treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli in 1796, and its revision of 1805. Some of the articles in the 1796 Treaty on the left have been moved to parallel the articles in the 1805 Treaty on the right in terms of subject matter rather than article number.

It appears that the only thing removed from the Treaty of 1796 and not found in the 1805 revision of that treaty is the rogue phrase about the U.S. "not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." The 1805 Treaty is in all other respects a fuller and more detailed version of the 1796 Treaty.
https://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/tripoli-treaties.htm

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