The concept "separation of Church and State" is in no U.S. document of government. It is a creation in the 20th century, from a phrase Jefferson wrote in a personal letter.
um.. oookay? Who told you that nonsense?
Here's a refresher on the issue of Sunday mail service which raged around the early 1800's.
The degree to which a secular approach to government was accepted in early 19th-century America was demonstrated by Congress' refusal to abandon Sunday mail service, which it had mandated in 1810. The 1844 invention of the telegraph would eventually put an end to the commercial need for daily mail, but in the 1820s and '30s, business still depended on the government to keep the mails moving seven days a week. Nevertheless, powerful right-wing religious leaders waged an unceasing campaign against the sacrilege of Sunday mail, which some considered a more important moral issue than slavery. But evangelical Christians and freethinkers, who had joined together to write and ratify the secular Constitution, wanted no part of government sanction for a religious Sabbath.
In 1828, Congress referred the godly mess to the powerful Senate Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. Its chairman was
Kentucky Senator Richard M. Johnson—a general, a hero of the War of 1812, and a devout Baptist. Johnson's report to Congress uncompromisingly declared that any federal attempt to give preference to the Christian Sabbath would be unconstitutional. He reminded his fellow legislators of the religious persecutions and intolerance that had impelled their revolutionary predecessors to draw a firm line—
"the line cannot be too strongly drawn"—between church and state.
So much for separation of church and state being a recently invented lie of the left.
Wonder Boy, really.... Right there plain as day you assert with all certainty that the separation of church and state is a creation of the 20th century. And it took me all of 2 minutes to show you that it was used way back in the early 1800's.
It helps having to actually research this for a paper in my political science class rather than going on the word of some right wingers book you may have read that assertion in..
