The "separation between church and state" has been an ongoing debate for a long time in American history. ... The saying "separation between church and state" was first introduced in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association where writes "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which ...

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Government, education, legal systems, social events, clothing, and home decor were all governed by the regulations of Puritanism. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. In his 1690 pamphlet, Two Treatises of Government, Locke stated that political sovereignty does not reside in the state, but in the people. He continued saying that the state has power only if governed by true and "natural" law. ... The movement was "marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than...

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