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There are few issues as controversial as where to draw the line between church and state. The framers of the Constitution's Bill of Rights began their blueprint for freedom by drawing exactly such a line. Th e fi rst clauses of the First Amendment provide: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Th e justices of the Supreme Court have not been wanting for advice from self-appointed guardians. Th e diffi culty with such advice is that the contestants are more convincing when they criticize their opponents' interpretations...

This volume is part of a five-volume series that presents extracts from all the leading works of political theory, history, law and constitutional argument on which the Framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced. The documentary sources and inspirations of the series reach from the early-17th century and extend through those Amendments to the Constitution that was adopted by 1835 - that is, through the end of the era of Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. This is the first volume in the series and it concentrates on Major Themes.

This volume is part of a five-volume series that presents extracts from all the leading works of political theory, history, law and constitutional argument on which the Framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced. The documentary sources and inspirations of the series reach from the early-17th century and extend through those Amendments to the Constitution that was adopted by 1835 - that is, through the end of the era of Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. This is the fourth volume in the series and it concentrates on Article 2, Section...