Bibliograph

God and the founders, Madison, Washington, and Jefferson, Vincent Phillip Muñoz

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God and the founders, Madison, Washington, and Jefferson, Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

God and the founders

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

667034922

Responsibility statement

Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

Madison, Washington, and Jefferson

Summary

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 Muñoz 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, Muñoz explains the Founders' competing church-state political philosophies. Muñoz 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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : The founders, religious freedom, and the First Amendment's religion clauses -- James Madison's principle of state noncognizance of religion -- George Washington on church and state : religion and the civic good -- Thomas Jefferson's natural rights philosophy and anticlerical politics of religious liberty -- Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's church-state doctrines -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the establishment clause -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and the free exercise clause -- The founders v. the Supreme Court -- Conclusion : The founders and church-state jurisprudence -- Appendix A : "Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments" by James Madison, 1785 -- Appendix B : Bill "establishing a provision for teachers of the Christian religion" by Patrick Henry, 1784 -- Appendix C : A bill for establishing religious freedom in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, 1777

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