what is the principle of the church and the states?

Answer 1

The government stays out of religion and religion stays out the government. It's a two way street. In order to have religious freedom the government cannot be tied to any particular religion.

Answer 2

The principle is that the church is to be protected from the state, but there is no "separation of church and state" as most people think, and this doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution.

Answer 3

If I understand your question, the colonists who became Americans, left England so they didn't have to be a member of the Church of England. The ones who left other European countries, left so they wouldn't have to be Catholic. Those colonists made the US so there can be no federally sponsored religion, at the national level. Some colonies, like Massachusetts and Connecticut were very religious and would banish those people who did not conform in the early days.

The US is setup so that one religion can not be forced on everyone and that we can worship according to our conscience. Atheists have pushed religion too far out of the public sphere, insisting on no praying in public. It is my right and yours to pray where ever we want.

Answer 4

"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."

Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Assoc., 1802.

Answer 5

The separation of the church and the state in inviolable.

Answer 6

God is a Republican