Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State /

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State / / Daniel Dreisbach.

No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state,” and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist A...

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Dreisbach, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The President, a Mammoth Cheese, and the “Wall of Separation”
  • 3. “Sowing Useful Truths and Principles”
  • 4. “What the Wall Separates”
  • 5. Early References to a “Wall of Separation”
  • 6. Creating “Effectual Barriers”
  • 7. “Useful Truths and Principles . . . Germinate and Become Rooted” in the American Mind
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Appendices. Documents from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  • Appendix 1. Proclamation Appointing a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, May 1774
  • Appendix 2. Address to the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Anne, 1774
  • Appendix 3. Bills Reported by the Committee of Revisors Appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1776, 18 June 1779
  • Appendix 4. Proclamation Appointing a Day of Publick and Solemn Thanksgiving and Prayer, November 1779
  • Appendix 5. Draft of “The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798,” November 1798 (excerpt)
  • Appendix 6. Correspondence with the Danbury Baptist Association, 1801–1802
  • Appendix 7. Correspondence with the Citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts, January 1802
  • Appendix 8. Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1805 (excerpts)
  • Appendix 9. Letter from Jefferson to the Reverend Samuel Miller, 23 January 1808
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Author

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