The sacred rights of conscience : selected readings on religious liberty and church-state relations in the American founding /
This compilation of primary documents provides a thorough and balanced examination of the evolving relationship between public religion and American culture, from pre-colonial biblical and European sources to the early nineteenth century, to allow the reader to explore the social and political force...
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Indianapolis :
Liberty Fund,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Biblical and European heritages
- Fundamental laws, declarations 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
- 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
- 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.