The First Freedoms - Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment

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.

List of contents

• 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,..."

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. Curry, Curry Thomas J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.1987
• EAN: 9780195051810
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505181-0
• Dimensions: 205 mm x 137 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Religion & beliefs, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Religion and beliefs