Separation of church and state

Separation of church and state / Philip Hamburger.

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. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jeffe...

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Main Author: Hamburger, Philip, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Church and state > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
LAW > Constitutional.
Church and state
Kerk en staat.
United States > Church history > 18th century.
United States
Church history
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Table of Contents:
  • [Pt.] I. Late eighteenth-century religious liberty. Separation, purity, and anticlericalism
  • Accusations of separation
  • The exclusion of the clergy
  • Freedom from religious establishments. [Pt.] II. Early nineteenth-century republicanism. Demands for separation: separating Federalist clergy from Republican politics
  • Keeping religion out of politics and making politics religious
  • Jefferson and the Baptists: separation proposed and ignored as a constitutional principle. [Pt.] III. Mid-nineteenth-century Americanism. A theologically liberal, anti-Catholic, and American principle
  • Separations in society
  • Clerical doubts and popular Protestant support
  • [Pt.] IV. Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century constitutional law. Amendment
  • Interpretation
  • Differences
  • An American constitutional right.

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