The state church was finally dislodged in 1786, when a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, penned by Jefferson, was passed after a lively debate in which Madison, who had been appalled by the jailing of Baptist ministers in his neighbourhood, prevailed.
And there are some high-powered issues to chew over - the balance of power between the Commons and the new Senate (or whatever it is to be called), the proportion to be elected or appointed, the presence of the Church of England bishops (excluding them would come close to disestablishment of the state church, so antidisestablishmentarianism may become a factor) and much, much more.
These men sat through 161 speeches on topics including the state of church finances, evangelization and the state of the Curia.
The statutory inquiry was set up by the Northern Ireland Executive to investigate institutions run by the state and church and also those owned by the private sector or voluntary bodies from 1922 to 1995.
In the days leading up to the conclave, more than 150 cardinals, some of whom won't participate in the election because they are older than the 80-year-old voting cutoff, gathered in Rome to discuss the state of the church.
So far, the court has ducked the key issue: whether school-voucher plans which allow parents to use state-funded vouchers to send their children to private religious schools breach the separation of church and state enshrined in the first amendment.
In 1986, in protest against fraudulent elections in the northern state of Chihuahua, the archbishop suspended church services across the state for one Sunday.
In the 1940s the church embraced the welfare state as a modern, professional alternative to charity, willingly dismantling voluntary relief networks and signing over thousands of church schools, hospitals and other bodies to the state, notes Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University.
Thanks to the separation of church and state, the country has nothing comparable to, say, the Catholic churches of Italy and Spain, or the Church of England.
The First Amendment was an insightful compromise between church and state, federal and local authorities.
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How publishers navigate the church-state debates likely to surface will also be an interesting spectator sport.
She shined a light on every failure of the U.S. government to separate church and state.
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State offered no immediate criticism of Ashcroft's appearance.
They didn't even use the argument of concern over separation of church and state.
For centuries, there was little to no separation of church and state in the region.
The infamous wall between Church and State created its own set of communications issues.
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Another criticism is that Messrs Bush and Gerson overstep the mark that separates church from state.
Observers say relations between Church and state have warmed in Cuba in recent years.
The deep religiosity of America is contrasted with its strict separation of church and state.
The dispute has driven a wedge between urban and rural Australia and between church and state.
The 1990s saw Kansans form the Mainstream Coalition, dedicated to the separation of church and state.
Church and state were distinct in that the Federal Government could not elevate one denomination over others.
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The law school preaches that separation of church and state was never intended by the U.S. founders.
The separation of church and state has never been as simple a matter as the separatists say.
So compassionate conservatism raises anew that age-old American question: where to draw the line between church and state?
Forget about separation of church and state, or in this case the siloed approach many companies take to CRM.
The American constitution is based on the strict separation of church and state.
Most schools in Flanders are state-funded but church-run (and pretty secular in outlook).
Embrace America as a pluralistic, democratic society in which the separation of church and state is a founding principle.
In doing so, she proposed the "endorsement" test, which established a judicial standard to measure the limits of church-state interaction.
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