On this day 250 years ago, young college graduate James Madison wrote to his classmate William Bradford and asked Bradford about “the extent of your religious Toleration. Here allow me to propose the following Queries. Is an Ecclesiastical Establishment absolutely necessary to support civil society in a supream Government? & how far it is hurtful to a dependant State?”
For the rest of his life Madison would answer these questions by making Separation of Church and State a bedrock principle in his contributions to the Founding of our Republic.
Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-01-02-0027
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What an essential part of the U.S. Constitution. If America had adopted the tight relationship between church and state held by the English, religious freedom would never have flourished in America; a critical component of true democracy which continues at risk today worldwide.
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