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Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory The case for the separation of church and state: 9 of 54

In school, you may have learned that the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights provided for freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Although all of these rights are enforced in our daily lives, one of them is mentioned nowhere in the Bill of Rights. It is the principle of "separation of church and state." One of the Founding Fathers did coin this phrase, however, but he did not mean it the way we interpret it today. The phrase first ap...
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