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Farewell, Justice Souter, Defender of Mr. Jefferson’s Wall

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Inside the First Amendment 

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By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar

If you believe with Thomas Jefferson that the First Amendment builds “a high wall of separation between Church & State,” then you will sorely miss Justice David H. Souter when he retires from the U.S. Supreme Court this month.

Few justices in recent memory have been more vigorous in defending Mr. Jefferson’s wall against increasingly successful efforts by some on the…

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