Separation of church and state

• Main Author: Hamburger, Philip
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Harvard University Press 2020
• Subjects: Church and state > United States ; Nhà thờ và nhà nước > Hoa Kỳ; 322.10973 HAM 2002
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/92472
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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 Jeffe...