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Read the background for the Founding Fathers' support of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Included are parts of letters in which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson celebrate the fact that the United States was a country where the government could not meddle in the religious affairs of the individual.
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religious liberty, separation of church and state, digital history, george washington, letter to moses seixas, 1790, george washington, letter to the new church in baltimore, 1793, religious freedom and the founders, thomas jefferson, from letter to danbury baptist association, 1802, virginia statute of religious freedom
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