| #771072 in Books | 2004-03-30 | 2004-02-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.35 x6.26 x9.08l,1.63 | File Name: 0674013743 | 528 pages
||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Landmark Volume|By L.S. Smith|This book is the most important contribution to the discussion of church and state in America during the last 100 years. The author "demythologizes" the subject. His most startling insight is the distinction he draws between "separation" and "disestablishment."
So significant is this work I would contend that the study of church and||Philip Hamburger has, simply, produced the best and most important book ever written on the subject of the separation of church and state in the United States. He has laid to rest the historical credentials of the Jeffersonian myth of the "wall of separation,
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later.
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