The First Amendment establishes the separation, the fact that the federal government shall not establish any religion and decisional law by the Supreme Court over many, many decades -- clarifies and enshrines that there is a separation of church and state that our courts and our laws must respect.
Chris Coons: “The First Amendment establishes the separation, the fact that the federal government shall not establish any religion…”
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Coons explains the First Amendment's role in establishing the separation of church and state during a debate.
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