Separation of church and state [[electronic resource] /] / Philip Hamburger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454865403321
• Autore: Hamburger Philip <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0-674-03818-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Disciplina: 322.10973
• Soggetti: Church and state - United States; Electronic books.; United States Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments Introduction I. Late Eighteenth-Century Religious Liberty 1. Separation, Purity, and Anticlericalism 2. Accusations of Separation 3. The Exclusion of the Clergy 4. Freedom from Religious Establishments II. Early Nineteenth-Century Republicanism 5. Demands for Separation: Separating Federalist Clergy from Republican Politics 6. Keeping Religion Out of Politics and Making Politics Religious 7. Jefferson and the Baptists: Separation Proposed and Ignored as a Constitutional Principle III. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americanism 8. A Theologically Liberal, Anti-Catholic, and American Principle 9. Separations in Society 10. Clerical Doubts and Popular Protestant Support IV. Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Constitutional Law 11. Amendment 12. Interpretation 13. Differences 14. An American Constitutional Right Conclusion Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In a challenge to conventional wisdom, Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The evidence assembled here shows that 18th-century Americans almost never invoked this principle.