"I consider the government
of the United States as interdicted by the constitution from
intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline,
or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall
be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but
from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to
the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious
exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been
delegated to the general government. It must then rest with the States."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Miller, 1808
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