For many Americans since then who have listened mainly to the Supreme Court for lessons about religious liberty, the wall separating church and state demands a strict separation of religion and politics. The Court's misreading of Jefferson's metaphor has contributed to a popular misunderstanding of politics, law, morality, and religion. This misreading is best corrected by allowing the Founders to speak for themselves, for their insistence upon religious liberty meant not the erection of a wall separating religion and politics, but the establishment of a principle that would let religion
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