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Responding to the general confusion in the United States about the proper role of religion in politics, five distinguished scholars demonstrate in original essays how our nation's founders carefully and clearly defined the appropriate relationship between church and state, and how we can adapt our current political institutions to reflect the founders' wisdom. Also, includes a collection of the most important statements by the Founders that address religion's role in American political life.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Part 4 Essays
Chapter 5 Religious Liberty: The View from the Founding
Chapter 6 "Where Locke stopped short we may go on": Religious Toleration and Religious Liberty at the Founding
Chapter 7 Are These Truths Now, or Have They Ever Been, Self-Evident?
Chapter 8 The Christian and Rebellion against Authority
Chapter 9 Civil Rights and Liberties in the Vocabulary of the American Founding
Part 10 Selected Documents and Sermons
Chapter 11 "A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission" (excerpt)
Chapter 12 "The Curse of Cowardice"
Chapter 13 "A Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston"
Chapter 14 Declaration of Independence
Chapter 15 "On the Right to Rebel against Governors"
Chapter 16 "An Antidote against Toryism"
Chapter 17 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty (excerpt)
Chapter 18 Northwest Ordinance (excerpt)
Chapter 19 Selected Addresses and Letters of George Washington First Inaugural Address
Chapter 20 A Proclamation of National Thanksgiving
Chapter 21 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island,
Chapter 22 Farewell Address

Product details

Published Jul 23 1997
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9780847686032
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

DP
Anthology Editor

Daniel C. Palm

SD
Contributor

Samuel Davies

SH
Contributor

Simeon Howard

HJ
Contributor

Harry V. Jaffa

JM
Contributor

Jonathan Mayhew

JR
Contributor

James R. Rogers

GT
Contributor

Glen E. Thurow

SW
Contributor

Samuel West

TW
Contributor

Thomas G. West

NW
Contributor

Nathaniel Whittaker

DQ
Foreword

Dan Quayle

Reviews

  • An excellent resource for understanding the Founders' view of the relationship between religion and liberty.

    Religion & Liberty

  • The book achieves its purpose. Each essay is concise-in this cas a strength-and provides a snapshot of its subject.

    K. Alan Synder, Regent University, Christian Scholar's Review

  • A very useful selection of documents from the revolutionary and founding periods, and a powerful reminder of the radical differences between the views on the proper relationship between religion and the public order shared by those who created our political order, and the views ascendent today.

    Richard E. Morgan, Bowdoin College

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