Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established
church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and …

With the approach of war in Virginia, patriot leaders viewed religious disputes with dismay.
Certainly, the ideological inconsistencies of fighting for liberty and against taxation without …

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often
appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much …

America's most original legal invention may be the First Amendment guarantee
that''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.''This constitutional …

Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or
does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court …

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty,
transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were …

The First Amendment's freedoms of speech, press, religion, and assembly once reinforced
each other. They protected citizens from forced participation in state orthodoxy and created …

Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment's protection of
religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the …

At a time when the concept of religion-based politics has taken on new and sometimes
ominous tones—even within the United States—it is not only right, but also urgently …

This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for
the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute …