[Ads-l] More Re: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

1797
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Thoughts_on_the_Christian_Religion/toW7vrJoETcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Separation+of+church+and+state%22&pg=RA2-PA9&printsec=frontcover


March  18 1798
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bell_s_Weekly_Messenger/Xqw2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Separation+of+church+and+state%22&pg=RA2-PA81&printsec=frontcover

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From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Date 15/04/2024 13:43:51
Subject More Re: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"

>"Separation of church and state" also appears in J. Penn, A Timely Appeal to the Common Sense of the People of Great Britain (1798), page 56.
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>Fred Shapiro
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>Subject: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"
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>OED does not have an entry for the phrase "separation of church and state," although there is a citation for it in the entry for "separation."  This phrase is commonly traeed to an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson.
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>Newspapers.com retrieves a 1798 occurrence of "separation of church and state" in the Evening Mail (London), 7 Feb. at page 3.  These words appear in a report of a convention at the Hague.
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>Fred Shapiro
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