Hearing the modern, progressive, and unique United States' concept of "Separation of Church and State", there are millions of citizens today who are ready to put God back into the State in a real and "limited" way. Are you tired of the push to remove "In God We Trust" from money or courthouses and tired of the push to limit or ban morning or meal prayers in public schools?
When did this unique new United States concept of "Separation of Church and State" first appear in the landscape of United States' politics or law? There was a founding father, Thomas Jefferson, who espoused this ideal first in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association? There were, indeed, several other oblique or more direct references to the ideal that no religion would be endorsed or otherwise promoted by the government including the Establishment Clause and the First Amendment. The United States has always been a melding of diverse religious foundations from the Puritan, Quaker, and Catholic to the Mormon, Native American, Amish, Atheist and Baptists. The ideal of "Separation of Church and State" first weasled into the public through the United States Courts and specifically in a Supreme Court decision Reynolds v United States, (1847) where Thomas Jefferson was cited as an authority.
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