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The Establishment Clause is literally the first protection in the Bill of Rights, and Thomas Jefferson famously described it as creating a “wall of separation between church and state.”

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Thomas Jefferson: I forgot to observe when speaking of the new testament that you should read all the histories of Christ, as well of those whom a council of ecclesiastics have decided for us to be Pseudo-evangelists, as those they named Evangelists.

Time to get back to first principles. The Constitution is not America's foundational document. It's the Declaration of Independence. Consent of the governed. Inalienable rights. Even 'democracy' isn't sacrosanct. It should be both by and for the people. Time for a Declaration of Intentions.