Church-State Separation in Colonial Times

The purpose of the project is to evaluate the degree of church-state separation in the decades leading up to and following the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and more specifically the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.

Leonard Levy, The Establishment Clause

• Preface
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• Chapter 1, Colonial Establishments
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• Chapter 2, Establishments in New England
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• Chapter 3, Establishments in the South
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• Chapter 4, The Constitution and Religion
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• Chapter 5, Framing the Establishment Clause
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• Chapter 6, James Madison versus the Nonpreferentialists
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Phillip Hamburger, Separation of Church and State

• Introduction
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• Chapter 1, "Separation, Purity, and Anticlericalism"
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• Chapter 2, "Accusations of Separation"
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• Chapter 3, "Exclusion of the Clergy"
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• Chapter 4, "Freedom from Religious Establishments"
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