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The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
-Thomas Jefferson
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The Legislative Powers Of Government Reach Actions

Thomas Jefferson
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative 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 and state.
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The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. the inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. it is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.
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