The Presidents on Church-State Separation
Posted in Separation of Church and State on Feb 18th, 2008
In honor of Presidents’ Day, here’s what our first four presidents had to say about church-state separation:
George Washington
“…we ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation, respecting religion, from the Magna Charta [Constitution] of our country.”
-From a letter to the New Hampshire-Massachusetts Presbytery, November 2, 1789.
“It shall still be my endeavor to manifest by overt […]