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Concept: This Country Was Built On Christian Principles
Answer : FALSE
Proof:
The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the United States Senate on June 7, 1797 and signed by President Adams taking effect as law on June 10, 1797. It contained the following statement, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...”
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Religious freedom was tested as early as October 7, 1801 when the Danbury Baptists fearing that the Congregationalists were attempting to establish Congregationalism as the state religion of Connecticut wrote a letter to President Jefferson requesting his support in opposing the idea of a state religion.
His included the famous words, “a wall of separation between Church and State.”
One-hundred and forty-six years later (1947) Justice Hugo Black wrote in the Everson case, “The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable.”
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