But when you go on the floor of the House, for instance, and it says, you know, one nation under God, and if you stand on the dais, you look up and you see Moses is actually across The idea of separating church and state doesn't say that in the Constitution. Does it not? No. The separation of church and state actually comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote in 18, I think it was 1804, to the Danbury Baptist association saying there will be a wall of separation to protect churches from government. (01:27–01:33)
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Asserts that the Constitution does not explicitly state the separation of church and state.
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