Title: The sacred rights of conscience : selected readings on religious liberty and church-state relations in the American founding
Abstract: Introduction Part I: Antecedents of the Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in America -- Biblical and European Heritages. Part II: Creating the Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in Colonial America -- Fundamental Laws, Declaration of Rights, and Public Acts on Ecclesiastical Establishments and Religious Liberty in Colonial America Letters, Tracts, and Sermons on Religious Liberty and Duty in Colonial America. Part III: Framing the Constitutional Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding The Continental and Confederation Congresses and Church-State Relations State Constitutions, Laws, and Papers on Church and State in Revolutionary America Petitions, Essays, and Sermons on Church and State in Revolutionary America References to God and the Christian Religion in the U.S. Constitution The Religious Test Ban of the U.S. Constitution The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Part IV Defining and Testing the Constitutional Principles Governing Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the New Nation Religion and the Public Policy and Culture of the New Nation Religion and Politics in the Election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Christianity, the Common Law, and the American Order Reflections on the American Church-State Experiment. Appendixes Historical Chronology, 1607-1833 Summary of Deliberations in the First Federal Congress on the First Amendment Religion Provisions, 1789 Selected Bibliography Index.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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