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The Garden and the Wilderness - Church and State in America to 1789 (Paperback)
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The Garden and the Wilderness - Church and State in America to 1789 (Paperback)
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In this well-researched, informative history, David Dean Bowlby
examines church and state in the American colonies and the early
national period up to the framing of the religion clauses of the
First Amendment by the First Congress. Bowlby describes the history
of the church and state up to that time as one involving the
struggle of religious minorities against church establishments,
with increasingly vocal calls for the free exercise of religion,
liberty of conscience, and disestablishment. He shows that when the
religion clauses were framed, people feared that the establishment
of religion would lead to the domination of one particular
denomination or sect, resulting in compulsory church taxes,
obligatory attendance at religious services, and adherence to
orthodox doctrines and liturgy. By focusing on the relationship
between religious establishments and free exercise, he makes the
case that the establishment clause and free exercise of religion
must be taken together as a guarantee of religious liberty, because
where a religious establishment was present the full and free
exercise of religion was not. It was this concern that prompted the
prohibitive language of the clauses-the Founders meant to protect
the latter by forbidding the former.
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