<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "(A) hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "(A) hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> Article Six of the United States Constitution also specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States ." </P> <P> Jefferson's metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court . In Reynolds v. United States (1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson's comments "may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the (First) Amendment ." In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: "In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state ." </P>

In which article do we find the first indication of the 'separation of church and state '