Title: God and the founders
First published: 2009
Description: 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 Muoz answers these questions by providing new, 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, Muoz explains the Founders' competing church-state political philosophies. Muoz 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 individual's religious conscience. - Publisher.
Subjects: Constitutional history, Religion, Church and state, Christianity and politics, Founding Fathers of the United States, Religious life, History, Views on religion, Church and state, united states, Constitutional history, united states, United states, religion, Church and state--history, Church and state--united states--history--18th century, Christianity and politics--history, Christianity and politics--united states--history--18th century, Founding fathers of the united states--views on religion, Constitutional history--united states, Br516 .m86 2009, 322/.10973
Places: United States
Time periods: 18th century, To 1800
LC classification: BR516 .M86 2009