Separation of Church and State

Philip Hamburger

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    I. Late Eighteenth-Century Religious Liberty

    1. Separation, Purity, and Anticlericalism

    2. Accusations of Separation

    3. The Exclusion of the Clergy

    4. Freedom from Religious Establishments

    II. Early Nineteenth-Century Republicanism

    5. Demands for Separation: Separating Federalist Clergy from Republican Politics

    6. Keeping Religion Out of Politics and Making Politics Religious

    7. Jefferson and the Baptists: Separation Proposed and Ignored as a Constitutional Principle

    III. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Americanism

    8. A Theologically Liberal, Anti-Catholic, and American Principle

    9. Separations in Society

    10. Clerical Doubts and Popular Protestant Support

    IV. Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Constitutional Law

    11. Amendment

    12. Interpretation

    13. Differences

    14. An American Constitutional Right

    Conclusion

    Index

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Philip Hamburger is Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School.