where can I find Thomas Jefferson's letter concerning the seperation of the Church and State?

Answer 1

The answer of jimmy_h is quite correct the reference is not in the Constitution of the United States in any form or variation. In addition I can only add that those who answered with suggestion to check the “Federalist Papers” have a problem because Thomas Jefferson never wrote any of the “Federalist Papers” or for that matter he didn’t contribute anything to the “Anti-federalist Papers.”

The letter in its entirety follows:

To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and Others, a Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut. January 1, 1802.

Gentlemen, — The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.

Answer 2

The phrase "separation of church and state" does not appear in the Constitution, but rather is derived from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a group identifying themselves as the Danbury Baptists. In that letter, Jefferson uses the term "wall of separation between church and state" to show the Danbury Baptists that in both Connecticut and the entire United States, religious freedom is an inalienable right that government cannot take away. While Jefferson's letter is often cited by separationists to prove that the original intent of the First Amendment was complete separation of church and state, separationists either consider it irrelevant or might say that it supports the idea that the original intention of the First Amendment was to guarantee religion the freedom to exist without government influence, and say that it makes no mention of government being wholly separate from all religious activity.

As to the letter, SALLI58 has the right website.

Answer 3

IMHO, the drafters of our US structure and the bill of Rights did not intend our cutting-part day interpretation "separation of church and starte". besides, those similar men blanketed Christian regulation into the texts seeing that that changed into the starting up position for his or her New Republic. The very last 2 century's American events however reported large scale retaliation by using Protestants over Catholic advances in particulary the coaching gadget which then lead over the years by ability of the a lengthy time period to the sterilization of very nearly all secular and ecumenical connections in coaching, authorities or perhaps as we've considered, many inner most establishments are transforming into sterile. i want an American President who leads in preserving with Biblical values that are fused with American regulation.

Answer 4

Check out the Federalists Papers.

Answer 5

Look in the Federalist Papers.

Answer 6

Don't bother, such a letter does not exist.

Answer 7

Try this link.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/ac001/lawpres.html

Good luck.

Answer 8

online

Answer 9

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