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“The wall of separation had the allegiance of a most profound Christian impulse as well as a secular one. To Christian fundamentalists of the Framers’ time the wall of separation derived from the biblical injunction that Christ’s kingdom is not of this world.”

Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment, 184.

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The wall of separation between church and state also drew on a genuinely Christian conviction about Christ's kingdom.

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