Separation of Church and State

by Philip Hamburger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013743
• ISBN13: 9780674013742
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"