...the principle of liberty of conscience. After his opening salutation, Jefferson's letter reads thus: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between a man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the [legitimate]...

...First Amendment and invoked the well-known metaphor of a wall of separation between church and state: believing with you that religion is a matter which...should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church...

...express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction. . . , Believing with you that religion is a matter which...should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church...

...delivered by Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. In this address he states the following: Believing with you that religion is a matter which...should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church...

...Rights. It's a brief note, just three paragraphs. Here is the entire paragraph containing the phrase, "Believing with you that religion is a matter which...should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church...

...challenge and potential of ethical education moving forward. COLONIAL ORIGINS AND ETHICAL ASSUMPTIONS Believing with you that religion is a matter which...should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church...

...reply to an address to him by a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, took occasion to say: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which...faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions,—I contemplate with sovereign reverence that...

...government get along all those years under such church restraint? In the same letter Jefferson said, "Believing with you that religion is a matter which...account to none other for his faith or his worship. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience,...

...Jefferson expressed this viewpoint in an 1802 letter to the Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of...should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church...

...his presidency, Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Connecticut Baptists in which he stated,..." I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of...should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: Thus building a wall of separation between church...