O'Donnell was the question on the Constitution of the United States - where did it say the separation of Church and State?

19 October 2010 17: 23 EDT

Republican Christine o ' O'Donnell has a question: where in the Constitution he say separation of Church and State?

And it is really surprised that the issue is addressed in the first amendment.

The moment captured to a debate at the Faculty of law of Widener in Wilmington and spread rapidly from the blogosphere.

The Tea Party favorite that seeks to be elected Vice President Joe Biden former seat of the Senate of Delaware, surprised.

She asked "where the Constitution is the separation of Church and State."

The public responded with laughter.

His opponent democratic Chris Coons said question of O'Donnell's separation of Church and State "reveals his fundamental misunderstanding of what our Constitution is, how it is modified.

When the Coons gives an explanation of the first amendment and the separation of Church and State, o ' Donnell responds: "first amendment does."

A blog of the Washington Post pointed out that the expression "separation of Church and State", comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote and some religious conservative activists say that the first amendment calls no separation of Church and State.

O'Donnell also asked for the debate, if it would repeal the 14th, 16 or 17 amendments, and she asked for a definition of the 14th and 16th. "I make my constitution with me.?

Photo credit: Reuters/Tim Shaffer (o ' O'Donnell in the debate at the Faculty of law of Widener)

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