Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume …

Thomas Jefferson
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Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.104
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