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The first freedoms : church and state in America to the passage of the First Amendment / Thomas J. Curry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curry, Thomas J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and state--United States--History--18th century.
- Church and state.
- Church and state--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Church history--To 1775.
- United States.
- United States--Church history--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? The First Freedoms studies the church-state context of colonial and revolutionary America to present a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Synthesizing and interpreting a wealth of evidence from the founding of Virginia to the passage of the Bill of Rights, including everything published in America before 1791, Thomas Curry traces America's developing ideas on religious liberty and offers the most extensive investigation ever of the historical origins and background of the First Amendment's religion clauses.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. The New England Way in Church and State to 1691
- 2. Church and State in Seventeenth-Century Virginia and Maryland
- 3. Church and State in the Restoration Colonies
- 4. Liberty of Conscience in Eighteenth-Century Colonial America
- 5. Establishment of Religion in Colonial America
- 6. Religion and Government in Revolutionary America Part I: The Southern States
- 7. Religion and Government in Revolutionary America Part II: The Middle States and New England
- 8. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-44974-8
- 9786610449743
- 0-19-536400-7
- 1-60129-678-9
- OCLC:
- 960164990
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