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Religious Freedom - Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed (Paperback)
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Religious Freedom - Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed (Paperback)
Series: Jeffersonian America
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For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for
Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our
understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment.
Jefferson’s expansive vision - including his insistence that
political freedom and free thought would be at risk if we did not
keep government out of the church and church out of government -
enjoyed a near consensus of support at the Supreme Court and among
historians, until Justice William Rehnquist called reliance on
Jefferson “demonstrably incorrect.” Since then, Rehnquist’s
call has been taken up by a bevy of jurists and academics anxious
to encourage renewed government involvement with religion. In
Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, the
historian and lawyer John Ragosta offers a vigorous defense of
Jefferson’s advocacy for a strict separation of church and state.
Beginning with a close look at Jefferson’s own religious
evolution, Ragosta shows that deep religious beliefs were at the
heart of Jefferson’s views on religious freedom. Basing his
analysis on that Jeffersonian vision, Ragosta redefines our
understanding of how and why the First Amendment was adopted. He
shows how the amendment’s focus on maintaining the authority of
states to regulate religious freedom demonstrates that a very
strict restriction on federal action was intended. Ultimately
revealing that the great sage demanded a firm separation of church
and state but never sought a wholly secular public square, Ragosta
provides a new perspective on Jefferson, the First Amendment, and
religious liberty within the United States.
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