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  • The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...

    Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, founders.archives.gov. June 18, 1779.
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