This concise volume features chronologically organized selections from such official documents as colonial charters, court opinions, and legislation, along with incisive twentieth-century interpretations of the issues they treat.
This is an account of the ideas about and public policies relating to the relationship between government and religion from the settlement of Virginia in 1607 to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829–37.
This concise volume presents chronologically-organized chapters that include selections from documents like colonial charters, opinions of the Supreme Court and salient legislation, along with contemporary commentary, and incisive ...
This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law.
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment.
Church and State in American History: The Burden of Religious Pluralism
Sweet, William Warren. Religion in Colonial America. ... Veit, Helen E., Kenneth Bowling, and Charlene Bangs Bickford, ... Whittington, Keith E. Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and judicial Review.
In this second edition, Edwin S. Gaustad traces the conflicted and often difficult relationship between religion and government throughout American history, beginning with colonists' concerns after the Revolution and continuing through the ...
Should biology be taught according to Darwin or to the book of Genesis? Why is polygamy against the law? These are just a few of the questions that touch our lives directly and emerge out of the separation of church and state.
Separation of Church and State: Historical Fact and Current Fiction