Jefferson’s Act for Establishing Religious Freedom is the basis for the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. What evidence from the passage best supports this statement? A.“The writing of the Establishment Clause was important to members of minority religions who were concerned that the federal government might establish a state religion."

B. “The words ‘separation of church and state’ do not appear in the First Amendment. The expression ‘a wall of separation between church and state’ can rather be found in a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote as President of the United States to a group of Baptists assuring that their religious freedoms would be protected."

C. “The law’s language and its ideas changed the course of American history.”

D. “Congress drew on the Virginia law when drafting the Bill of Rights, a group of 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. Specifically, Jefferson’s statute was a precursor to the First Amendment’s protections for religious freedoms.”