ENGLISH

Separation of Church and State

By Philip Hamburger

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674038189
DOI
10.4159/9780674038189
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1996893 bytes)
Pages
528\528
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 07:07:22

Description

Hamburger argues that separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment and shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed a First Amendment basis for separation, it became part of American constitutional law only much later.

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