Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:28 PM -0500 11/22/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I thought the quote was relevant because, whatever your position on
>the concept of church and state, the phrase itself is not in the
>Constitution or its Amendments, and many of the very intelligent
>people discussing it, including those on this list, are unaware of
>that fact.
>
>DanG

I guess we could quibble about whether we're talking about "the
separation of church and state", which I grant isn't in the
Constitution or its Amendments, or the separation of church and
state, which arguably is (given the first amendment, the barring of
religious qualifications for office, etc.).

LH

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