Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846
Defenders of First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution have long been enamored of the wall of separation between church and state that Thomas Jefferson defended in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, especially since Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black declared it a “high and i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 785-787 |
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| Summary: | Defenders of First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution have long been enamored of the wall of separation between church and state that Thomas Jefferson defended in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, especially since Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black declared it a “high and impregnable” divide in Everson v. the Board of Education (1947). Black's decision also elevated the seeming importance of channeling the founders as the essential first step in clarifying the historic relationship between religion and the state in America. James Kabala, however, pushes such traditional guides as Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington to the margins and gives opportunity instead to lesser-known state and local players. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu091 |