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'A Wall of Separation' (June 1998) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin. By JAMES HUTSON Following is an article by the curator of a major exhibition at the Library that opens this month and runs through Aug. 22. A key document on view in "Religion and the Founding of the American Republic" (see LC Information Bulletin, May 1998), is the letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, which contains the phrase "a wall of separation between church and state. " With the help of the FBI, the draft of the letter, including Jefferson's obliterated words, are now known. Thomas Jefferson's reply on Jan. 1, 1802, to an address from the Danbury (Conn.)

Baptist Association, congratulating him upon his election as president, contains a phrase that is as familiar in today's political and judicial circles as the lyrics of a hit tune: "a wall of separation between church and state. " During his lifetime, Jefferson could not have predicted that the language in his Danbury Baptist letter would have endured as long as some of his other arresting phrases. Mr. Does God Belong in Public Schools? - Kent Greenawalt.

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Www.lrc.ky.gov/krs/158-00/005.PDF. Www.musiceducationworld.com/files/Music_education_and_choral_music_in_the_UAE_-ANCA_article_by_Michael_Griffin.pdf.