Separation of Church and State
What the Founders Meant

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Author: David Barton.

Separation of Church and State provides a simple and much-needed analysis of one of the most often used and widely misunderstood phrases in American history.

Discover the Founding Father's views on the positive influence of religious values on public policy as well as the background behind President Thomas Jefferson's famous 1802 letter employing the "separation of church and state" phrase. Significantly for a century and a half after its introduction courts correctly interpreted Jefferson's phrase as a mandate to protect Christian expression in the public square and only recent years has the phrase been remade into a judicially-enforced policy of public secularism.

The benefit of religion to American society largely ignored over the past half-century is now being rediscovered by citizens judges legislators who are once again beginning to incorporate religious principles into public policy. This book offers an engaging and easy to read overview of one of the greatest public policy debates in contemporary America.

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