Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding: Selected Readings on ... Relations in the American Founding - Softcover

 
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This text provides students and scholars a rich collection of primary sources that illuminate the discussions and debates about religious liberty in the American founding era. This compilation of primary documents provides a thorough and balanced examination of the evolving relationship between public religion and American culture, from pre-colonial biblical and European sources to the early nineteenth century, to allow the reader to explore the social and political forces that defined the concept of religious liberty and shaped American church-state relations.

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About the Authors

Daniel L Dreisbach is William E Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life for the James Madison Program in American Institutions at Princeton University and professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C.

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. In addition to editing, with Kermit L. Hall, the Collected Works of James Wilson (Liberty Fund, 2007) and, with Daniel L. Dreisbach, The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church- State Relations in the American Founding (Liberty Fund, 2009), he has written Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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ISBN 10:  0865977143 ISBN 13:  9780865977143
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc, 2009
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