Re: seperation of church & state?

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Well 1st Amendment to deep for me to cross. However,
my suggestions, we should look closely to the Constitution-
First Amendment base in the federalism and state
establishment with in the context of religion and public
life. I have to agree there is no evidence of such delegated
power in the constitution (1st Amend.). However, the Bill of
Right suggestions that the religion clauses of the 1st
Amendment are meant to be taken broadly rather then
narrowly. I agree with previous post and I believe it has to
come from History of America going back to the founders of
America. If we could microscope ply examine each famous
founder and look in to their religion believe, their public
life and theirs ideology with regards to separation of
church and state (e.g. Virginia in 1786 enacted Jefferson’s
Bill for the establishment of religions liberty etc. Please
read “The First Freedoms" pp 134- 138), we might see the
difficult parcel start to come together. However, we should
also take into account the argument of accomodationists:
simply to bar the establishment of a state church, vs.
separationists: believe that the founders intended to
separate church and State and the framers: related to the
waning of establishment.

Thank you
SFanua, 2nd Yr Law Student

On 7/08/04, anonymous wrote:
> I have copies of the Constitution, all the amendments, and
> a large collection of the writings of the founding fathers.
>
> I have read over them many times and can not find the
> section where seperation of church and state is defined.
>
> All that the 1st Amendment says is that Congress shall
make
> no law abriding the freedom of religion or the practice
> thereof. (Although that part was conveniently tossed out
in
> the early part of the 19th century).
>
> So, where is said seperation defined/stated/etc?