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Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State Ron L. Chandler " But it proved anIntroduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Conneticut Baptist Association, Jefferson's "wall" is accepted by many Americans as a concise description of the US Constitution's church state arrangement and conceived as a virtual rule of constitutional law. This text offers an in depth examination of the origins, controversial uses and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.