"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danburry Baptist Assoc. which Jefferson stated inside "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State" This is Jefferson's interpretation of the amendment and as one of our greatest founding fathers we must assume his interpretation is the proper interpretation.
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