Vincent Phillip Munoz

God and the Founders (eBook, PDF)

Madison, Washington, and Jefferson

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Did the Founding Fathers intend to build a 'wall of separation' between church and state? Are public Ten Commandments displays or the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance consistent with the Founders' understandings of religious freedom? In God and the Founders, Dr Vincent Phillip Munoz answers these questions by providing comprehensive interpretations of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Munoz explains the Founders' competing church-state political philosophies. Munoz explores how Madison, Washington, and Jefferson agreed and disagreed by showing how their different principles of religious freedom would decide the Supreme Court's most important First Amendment religion cases. God and the Founders answers the question, 'What would the Founders do?' for the most pressing church-state issues of our time, including prayer in public schools, government support of religion, and legal burdens on individuals' religious consciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511590764
• Artikelnr.: 38206499

Autorenporträt

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, Massachusetts and a Faculty Affiliate at the Seattle University School of Law. He has held positions at Princeton University, New Jersey, Claremont McKenna College, California, North Carolina State University, and Pomona College, California. His writings have appeared in American Political Science Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Review of Politics, the Wall Street Journal, First Things, and Claremont Review of Books. His media appearances include commentary on National Public Radio and Voice of America Radio. He has testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on legal hostility toward religious expression in the public square.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Founders, religious freedom, and the First Amendment's
religion clauses; Part I. The Founders' Church-State Political
Philosophies: 1. James Madison's principle of state noncognizance of
religion; 2. George Washington on church and state: religion and the civic
good; 3. Thomas Jefferson's natural rights philosophy and anticlerical
politics of religious liberty; Part II. The Founders and the First
Amendment Religion Clauses: 4. Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's
church-state doctrines; 5. Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the
establishment clause; 6. Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the free
exercise clause; 7. The Founders v. the Supreme Court; Conclusion: the
Founders and church-state jurisprudence; Appendix A: James Madison,
memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments; Appendix B:
Patrick Henry, a bill 'establishing a provision for teachers of the
Christian religion'; Appendix C: Thomas Jefferson, a bill for establishing
religious freedom in Virginia.