Founding Fathers Agree: Separation of Church and State
Several Presidents have reiterated the constitution’s Separation of Church and State. President Thomas Jefferson : I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. President George Washington : The Treaty of Tripoli (1797) which was negotiated under George Washington and signed under John Adams, flatly states that "The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”. President John Adams : I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! President James Madison : To promote any religion is outside the proper scope of limited government. President John Tyler : The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of...