Separation of church and state

The point has been made that although the actual phrase "separation of church and state" is not found in the Constitution, the principle is there and the phrase itself was in wide use by the founding fathers.

To the right wingers today who say that the United States is "a Christian nation", look at this:

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

--James Madison