Original sentence: Finally it condemns the Masonic idea of the total separation of religion and state:.For example the idea popular sovereignty is the source of all rights and that man should bend to no authority other than himself.Humanum Genus criticises a number of principles.The encyclical specifically condemned certain practices of the Freemasons, such as: religious indifference; the promotion of public education which denied the Church's role and where "the education of youth shall be exclusively in the hands of laymen"; the approval of the notion that the people are the only source of sovereignty, and that "those who rule have no authority but by the commission and concession of the people.This condemnation is consistent with Jeffersonian principles which limits popular sovereignty by rights "endowed by their Creator":
Edited sentence: " The encyclical went on to state that Freemasonry was condemned because it encourages the political power of the people, and went on to state that "it is most untrue that the people have it in their power to cast aside their obedience whensoever they please.According to this, therefore, all things belong to the free people; power is held by the command or permission of the people, so that, when the popular will changes, rulers may lawfully be deposed and the source of all rights and civil duties is either in the multitude or in the governing authority when this is constituted according to the latest doctrines.Finally it condemns the Jeffersonian and Masonic idea of the "wall of separation" between church and state:.For example, paragraph 22 condemns popular sovereignty:.Humanum Genus criticises many principles, some of which are today equated by most people with the founding principles of the United States.It also condemns the doctrine of perpetual revolution:.The encyclical specifically condemned certain practices of the Freemasons, such as: the admission of persons of every creed, which was equated to religious indifference; the promotion of public education which denied the Church's role and where "the education of youth shall be exclusively in the hands of laymen"; the approval of the notion that "the people are sovereign," and that "those who rule have no authority but by the commission and concession of the people