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Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church-State Debate. By Daniel L. Dreisbach. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky1996. Pp. xix, 220. $34.95. ISBN: 0-813-1950-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2001

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References

1. Quoted and discussed in Dreisbach, Daniel L., “Sowing Useful Truths and Principles”: The Danbury Baptists, Thomas Jefferson, and the “Wall of Separation,” 39 J. Church & State 455 (1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. N. Y. Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256 U.S. 345, 349 (1921).

3. See especially the following works by Dreisbach, supra n. 1; A New Perspective on Jefferson's Views on Church-Stale Relations: The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom in its Legislative Context, 35 Am. J. Leg. Hist. 172 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; In Search of a Christian Commonwealth: An Examination of Selected Nineteenth-Century Commentaries on References to God and the Christian Religion in the United States Constitution, 48 Baylor L. Rev. 927 (1996)Google Scholar; The Constitution's Forgotten Religion Clause: Reflections on the Article VI Religious Test Ban, 38 J. Church & State 261 (1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Thomas Jefferson and Bills Numbers 82-86 of the Revision of the Laws of Virginia, 1776-1786: New Light on the Jeffersonian Model of Church-State Relations, 69 N.C. L. Rev. 159 (1990)Google Scholar; and Thomas Jefferson, a Mammoth Cheese, and the “Wall of Separation Between Church and State, in Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America 65 (Hutson, James H. ed., 2000)Google Scholar. Some of the themes of these articles are adumbrated in Dreisbach, Daniel L., Real Threat and Mere Shadow: Religious Liberty and the First Amendment (Crossway Books, Div. of Good News Publishers 1987)Google Scholar and elaborated in a tract on the history of the doctrine of separation of church & state forthcoming from N.Y. U. Press.

4. Franklin, Benjamin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania (1749)Google Scholar, quoted and discussed in Marty, Martin E., On a Medial Moraine: Religious Dimensions of American Constitutionalism, 39 Emory L.J. 9, 1617 (1990)Google Scholar who quotes and discusses Franklin, Benjamin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania (1749)Google Scholar.