This is an account of the ideas about and public policies relating
to the relationship between government and religion from the
settlement of Virginia in 1607 to the presidency of Andrew Jackson,
1829-37. This book describes the impact and the relationship of
various events, legislative, and judicial actions, including the
English Toleration Act of 1689, the First and Second Great
Awakenings, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of
Rights, and Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists. Four
principles were paramount in the American approach to government's
relation to religion: the importance of religion to public welfare;
the resulting desirability of government support of religion
(within the limitations of political culture); liberty of
conscience and voluntaryism; the requirement that religion be
supported by free will offerings, not taxation. Hutson analyzes and
describes the development and interplay of these principles, and
considers the relevance of the concept of the separation of church
and state during this period.
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