No Jeffersonian Wall
Posted on August 05th, 2002 in United States
New scholarly research shows that Thomas Jefferson never intended to create a “wall of separation.” Daniel L. Dreisbach’s new book “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State” explores this issue.
“What we have today is not really Jefferson’s wall, but Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black’s wall,” said American University professor Daniel Dreisbach, whose forthcoming book explores how Jefferson coined the “wall” metaphor. The Founders created no such thing and the “wall of separation” has become a “lazy slogan” for judges and politicians.
I’ve always know the phrase was being misinterpreted, but wasn’t sure where the phrase as used today really came from. Now we know.
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