TheSacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding. Eds. Daniel L. Dreisbach & Mark David Hall.

In the lively debate about the proper relationship between church and state, this collection of historical documents seeks to confirm the strong religious underpinnings of the founding of the United States. The editors acknowledge the different sources for the arrangements of church and state and t...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Krabbendam, Hans
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: European journal of American studies 2022
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:In the lively debate about the proper relationship between church and state, this collection of historical documents seeks to confirm the strong religious underpinnings of the founding of the United States. The editors acknowledge the different sources for the arrangements of church and state and the debates about the preferred nature. It is their purpose to provide evidence of the dominance of the Christian tradition in the formulation of the new political arrangements. While almost everyon...