On Faith and Free GovernmentDaniel C. Palm Responding to the general confusion in the United States about the proper role of religion in politics, five distinguished scholars demonstrate in original essays how our nation's founders carefully and clearly defined the appropriate relationship between church and state, and how we can adapt our current political institutions to reflect the founders' wisdom. Also, includes a collection of the most important statements by the Founders that address religion's role in American political life. |
Contents
Religious Liberty The View from the Founding | 3 |
Where Locke stopped short we may go on Religious Toleration and Religious Liberty at the Founding | 29 |
Are These Truths Now or Have They Ever Been SelfEvident? | 43 |
The Christian and Rebellion against Authority | 49 |
Civil Rights and Liberties in the Vocabulary of the American Founding | 61 |
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission excerpt | 77 |
The Curse of Cowardice | 93 |
A Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston | 99 |
An Antidote against Toryism | 151 |
Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty excerpt 1786 | 175 |
Northwest Ordinance excerpt 1787 | 177 |
Selected Addresses and Letters of George Washington | 179 |
A Proclamation of National Thanksgiving 1789 | 182 |
Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport Rhode Island 1790 | 183 |
Farewell Address 1796 | 184 |
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The Declaration of Independence 1776 | 117 |
On the Right to Rebel against Governors | 121 |
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