What is the name of that thing that seperates church and state??

Answer 1

We have not only the First Amendment and The Danbury Papers
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The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
THOSE WORDS, PENNED IN ARTICLE 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, are as succinct a statement as we have from the Founding Fathers on the role of religion in our government. Their authorship is ascribed variously to George Washington, under whom the treaty was negotiated, or to John Adams, under whom it took effect, or sometimes to Joel Barlow, U.S. consul to Algiers, friend of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, and himself no stranger to the religious ferment of the era, having served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army. But the validity of the document transcends its authorship for a simple reason: it was ratified. It was debated in the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Adams without a breath of controversy or complaint concerning its secular language, and so stands today as an official description of the founders’ intent.


Much later: One thing might be common sense!

"There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world." New World Order.. Adolph Hitler

Answer 2

Just to clarify the rants on here....

The Second Amendment gives people the right to bear arms....
The first and the fourth clearly say that there should be not official state religion.

Several supreme court decisions have backed this idea up.

Answer 3

the first amendment to the constitution....it prohibts the state establishing a religion and inhibiting the freedom of speech.

-the supreme court ruled that this means that the government and the church must be separate-

by the way...the second amendment gives the right to bear arms...

Answer 4

The Contitution (Article VI, and 1st Amendment).

The literal phrasing isn't in the Constitution because the concept was so obvious to the Founders (and anyone else who has studied Constitutional law in depth) that it went without saying. But it's nothing new to Constitutional scholars. The phrase was first adopted by the Supreme Court in 1878, who gave credit for it to Jefferson as the originator of the quote. According to the Court, the phrase should be taken as "an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [1st] amendment thus secured." Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878).

It's been US doctrine for almost 130 years, and was referred to in 1943 as "our accepted belief" and "cardinal in the history of this nation and for the liberty of our people". West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). So those who missed it must not have been paying attention.

Answer 5

There is nothing that seperates church and state. Only peoples lies.

Answer 6

the first amendment?
That is the name of the thing that separates it. That was the question. Not 'where does it state that in the constitution'.

Answer 7

Article 4 of the Bill of Rights, that specifically says that congress shall not respect ANY establishment of religion.

Of course, that is completely violated by the US tax code not charging real estate taxes on churches.

Answer 8

The myth that the Constitution Bill of Rights says that there is a separation between church and state.

Answer 9

What did the constitutional writers actually mean by that phrase? Some say that only meant that there would be no state sponsored religion.

Answer 10

There is NO such thing. The Second Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits the US gov. from forming a "state religion," such as exists in many Arab countries. Even Israel doesn't have a state religion.