God and the founders
Subtitle: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
By: Vincent Phillip Muñoz.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521515153; 9780521735797
Subjects: Church and state -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Founding Fathers of the United States -- Religious life; Constitutional history -- United States; United States -- Religion -- To 1800
Description: "By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the founders' competing church-state political philosophies."--Page [i].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The founders, religious freedom, and the First Amendment's religion clauses; title: Part 1 : The founders' church-state political philosophies.; title: James Madison's principle of state noncognizance of religion; title: George Washington on church and state : religion and the civic good; title: Thomas Jefferson's natural rights philosophy and anticlerical politics of religious liberty; title: Part 2 : The founders and the First Amendment religion clauses.; title: Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's church-state doctrines; title: Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the establishment clause; title: Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and the free exercise clause; title: The founders v. the Supreme Court; title: Conclusion : The founders and church-state jurisprudence; title: Appendixes.; title: Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments / James Madison, 1785; title: A bill establishing a provision for teachers of the Christian religion / Patrick Henry, 1784; title: A bill for establishing religious freedom in Virginia / Thomas Jefferson, 1777