No establishment of religion: America's original contribution to religious liberty

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction / John Witte, Jr.

1. The Separation of Church and State versus Religion in the Public Square: The Contested History of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn

2. Establishment at the Founding / Michael W. McConnell

3. Disestablishing Religion and Protecting Religious Liberty in State Laws and Constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie

4. Roger Williams and the Puritan Background of the Establishment Clause / David Little

5. Toleration and Diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony: The Roots of Americas First Disestablishment / Paul Finkelman

6. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the Meaning of "Establishment of Religion" in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham

7. The Continental Congress and Emerging Ideas of Church-State Separation / Derek H. Davis

8. The First Federal Congress and the Formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck

9. Defining and Testing the Prohibition on Religious Establishments in the Early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach

10. The "Second Disestablishment": The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Understandings of Separation of Church and State / Steven K. Green

11. Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson: Federalism, School Wars, and the Emerging Modern State / Thomas C. Berg

12. Some Reflections on Fundamental Questions about the Original Understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt

13. Getting Beyond "The Myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty

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