Card 144 / 151: Which of the following statements about the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment is FALSE?
A) Americans universally feared state-sponsored religion, because they had come from Britain to escape religious persecution.
B) Before the establishment clause, nine of the thirteen original colonies supported a single religion.
C) James Madison advocated for the separation of church and state as a way of avoiding religious conflicts like the ones in England and Russia.
D) Thomas Jefferson argued that people should be free to adopt atheism.

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