________ argued that there was a "wall of separation" between church and state.

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Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, is credited with coining the phrase "wall of separation" to describe the constitutional separation between church and state. In a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, he wrote, "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

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