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“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].”

— Thomas Jefferson

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Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
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Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764) Broken link. Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459

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Jefferson, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

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