Thomas most activist, Breyer least activist

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Separation of church and state is found nowhere in the Federalist Papers. You're completely clueless.

Pardon me.  Jefferson made the famous "wall between church and state" in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut.  My bad.  In the Federalist papers Hamilton just talks about how the President has no spirtual authority over the nation.

But yet Jefferson funded preachers with federal tax money to Christianize indians. Yeah, he was for seperation.

[Wakie]

Separation of church and state is found nowhere in the Federalist Papers. You're completely clueless.

Pardon me.  Jefferson made the famous "wall between church and state" in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut.  My bad.  In the Federalist papers Hamilton just talks about how the President has no spirtual authority over the nation.

But yet Jefferson funded preachers with federal tax money to Christianize indians. Yeah, he was for seperation.

He gave a one time $50 gift to a preacher who was the only national contact with a group of indians.  He did not specify "evangalize".  This was more about diplomacy.

[Peter]

Separation of church and state is found nowhere in the Federalist Papers.

Considering the last Federalist was published in May 1788 and the Bill of Rights did not pass Congress until November 1789, thats hardly surprising.

James Madison also vetoed legislation that he felt violated the Establishment Clause, and he has an even stronger claim to knowledge of intent considering that he wrote it.

[A18]

Uh, I didn't deny that the establishment clause exists. I said there's no basis for it in the Federalist Papers, which is why it's dumb to say you've read them, and then talked about the separation of church and state.

[Peter]

Uh, I didn't deny that the establishment clause exists. I said there's no basis for it in the Federalist Papers, which is why it's dumb to say you've read them, and then talked about the separation of church and state.

I didn't say you did. I was simply providing the reason why Establishment Clause isn't in the Federalists.