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Ministers of the gospel are excluded [from serving as visitors of the county elementary schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Ministers of the gospel are excluded [from serving as visitors of the county elementary schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.
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