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How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership – a friendship told in letters – shaped America’s separation of church and state

  • Written by Steven K. Green, Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership – a friendship told in letters – shaped America’s separation of church and stateA stamp printed with a Thomas Jefferson quotation in 1960.AlexanderZam/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state.

According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of adults agree that religion should be kept separate from government policies. To be sure,...

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