Thomas J. Curry

The First Freedoms

Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the founding of Virginia to the passage of the Bill of Rights, the role of the First Amendment's religion clauses has never been clearly defined. A thorough examination of America's developing ideas on religious liberty. The First Freedoms presents a bold new interpretation of the Church-State context of colonial and revolutionary America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780195051810
• ISBN-10: 0195051815
• Artikelnr.: 21856993

Inhaltsangabe

* The New England Way in Church and State to 1691
* Church and State in Seventeenth-Century Virginia and Maryland
* Church and State in Restoration Colonies
* Liberty of Conscience in Eigthteenth-Century Colonial America
* Establishment of Religion in Colonial America
* Religion and Government in Revolutionary America, Pt. I: The Southern
States
* Religion and Government in Revolutionary America, Pt. II: The Middle
States and New England
* "Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion,
or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof,..."