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In the USA, the constitutional depiction of the relations between Church and State is contained in the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution which set up the 'establishment clause'. The establishment clause prohibits the Congress from passing a law that would establish an official church of the United States (i.e. to establish an official federal religion). The first attempt to give an extensive interpretation of the establishment clause was made in 1947 by Justice Black in Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township. The ratio decidendi of the Everson case raised the separation between Church and State to the status of a constitutional norm. In its opinion, the Court invoked Thomas Jefferson's metaphor of the wall of separation, used in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. As a consequence of a US Supreme Court's landmark decision in Everson, the phrase 'wall of separation' spread into the language of politics in America and, what is more important, was frequently referred to by the Supreme Court in its decisions concerning religious freedom in general, and the implementation of the establishment clause in particular. The first use of the above-mentioned phrase in the American political debate took place already in the colonial period. The metaphor of the wall of separation was used by Roger Williams in 1644 in his political pamphlet containing arguments against the institution of a state church in Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. The article is aimed at reconstruction of doctrinal origins of the metaphor of the wall of separation and its role in shaping perception of proper relations between Church and State in the United States.
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Trudno nie zgodzić się z przyjętą przez większość badaczy tezą o funkcjonowaniu tolerancji religijnej w XVII-wiecznym Marylandzie, angielskiej kolonii złożonej w Ameryce w 1634 r. przez katolika Cecila Calverta, Lorda Baltimore. Wystarczy przypomnieć, iż przysięga gubernatora kolonii z 1648 r. była pierwszym amerykańskim aktem prawnym zawierającym słynną klauzulę swobodnej praktyki (free exercise of religion), a uchwalony w Marylandzie w 1649 r. An Act Concerning Religion pierwszą amerykańską ustawą gwarantującą przedmiotową swobodę wszystkim chrześcijanom. Badania zaprezentowane w niniejszym artykule pozwalają jednak postawić tezę, iż dla lordów Baltimore ostatecznym celem realizowanej w XVII-wiecznym Marylandzie tolerancji religijnej było wprowadzenie rozdziału kościoła od państwa w kolonii. Powyższe założenie pozwala na właściwe zrozumienie zarówno marylandzkich regulacji prawno-wyznaniowych jak i polityki tolerancji religijnej lordów Baltimore. Tytułem przykładu wskazać można na przeprowadzone przez władze Marylandu prześladowanie kwakrów, którzy z pobudek konfesyjnych odmawiali składania przysięgi wierności na rzecz Lorda Baltimore. Prześladowanie to pozostaje w sprzeczności z faktem, iż żaden z kwakrów, a nawet Żyd otwarcie przeczący boskości Chrystusa, nie zostali ukarani za bluźnierstwo przeciwko Trójcy Świętej, za który to czyn de iure groziła w XVII-wiecznym Marylandzie kara śmierci. Sprzeczność ta okaże się być jednak tylko pozorna, jeśli za podstawę powyższej polityki przyjmiemy realizację zasady rozdziału kościoła od państwa, gwarantującej świecki porządek w kolonii.
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For many historians it is certain that in the seventeenth century Maryland, an English colony founded in America in 1634 by a Catholic, Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, there was religious toleration. It is difficult to disagree with this statement. The oath of the Governor of Maryland from 1648 was the first American legal document which used the famous free exercise clause. Furthermore, An Act Concerning Religion enacted in Maryland in 1649, was the first American legislative act which guaranteed the free exercise of religion to all Christians. However, as far as this paper is concerned, it was not religious toleration that Lords Baltimore finally wanted to achieve. Their real idea was the separation of the church and state. This is the most convincing explanation not only of the seventeenth century Maryland religious laws, but also of the politics of the Lords Baltimore in the field of religious toleration. For instance, the Maryland government persecuted Quakers, after on the base of their religion they refused to take an oath of fidelity to the Lord Baltimore. In contrast to that, not one Quaker or even Jew, who openly denied the divinity of Christ, was punished for blasphemy against the Holy Trinity, which was by the law a capital crime in the seventeenth century Maryland. The reason behind this confusing policy was the realization of the idea of the separation of church and state which guaranteed the secular order in the colony.
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