Thursday, November 06, 2014

James Madison - a founding father - on the separation of church and state

We the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth, having taken into serious consideration, a Bill printed by order of the last Session of General Assembly, entitled "A Bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion," and conceiving that the same if finally armed with the sanctions of a law, will be a dangerous abuse of power, are bound as faithful members of a free State to remonstrate against it, and to declare the reasons by which we are determined.

James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, June 20, 1785
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