Madison and Jefferson both subscribed to the view that the First Amendment erects a “wall of separation between church and state”
a. but this is only one interpretation, as separation is not mentioned in the Constitution itself.
b. but all of the other Founders were clear and unequivocal that the government was grounded in and relied on Christian religious doctrine.
c. although the Constitution specifically calls for the federal promotion of “religious values.”
d. but the Supreme Court has never addressed government entanglement in religion.
a. but this is only one interpretation, as separation is not mentioned in the Constitution itself.
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a. Niccolo Machiavelli b. Thomas Hobbes c. Karl Marx d. John Locke e. Edmund Burke