seperation of church and state in the United States government

Introduction

One will be hard-pressed to imagine living life without having one form of government or another . Even in the early civilizations , there was always the existence of some form of authority to lead the masses or a certain group of individuals . The Egyptians had their Pharaohs , the Romans had their Caesars and Senates , the Greeks had their governments and even the Middle Ages had their royalty . Suffice it to say that at virtually every point in man 's history , there has always been one form of government or another that existed

for the purpose of managing the affairs of the people and protecting them from oppressors

Traditionally , governments existed for the sole purpose of governance so that there would be a common factor that united the people and helped them progress in a singular direction . These governments exhibited a certain structure wherein there was a single ruler or head that gave the decrees and s and determined what laws were to be established There was no separation of powers as is characterized by the more modern forms of government that exist around the world at the present . All powers , executive , legislative and judicial , were more often embodied in a single person or head . As history has shown , this was a bad precedent and has been corrected by the separation of powers to prevent the abuse by the solitary head or ruler

Another peculiar characteristic of early forms of government is the fact that the authority that the ruler or...