The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment

by Thomas J. Curry

Book Overview

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 assert? The First Freedoms studies the church-state context of colonial and revolutionary America to present a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Synthesizing and interpreting a wealth of evidence from the founding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051815
• ISBN13: 9780195051810
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"