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Separation Anxiety.("Separation of Church and State")(Book Review)
Separation of Church and State, by Philip Hamburger (Harvard, 560 pp., $49.95)
Felix Frankfurter, nestled in the Supreme Court in the late 1940s, summed up the new orthodoxy taking hold in his circles: "We have staked the very existence of our country on the faith that complete separation between the state and religion is best for the state and best for religion." The language was high-flown, for Frankfurter was untethered now from anything in the text of the Constitution. The notion of separating religion and politics sprang, rather, from Jefferson's letter to the Baptists in Danbury, Conn., in which Jefferson famously spoke of a "wall of separation between ...
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