Godless Constitution A Moral Defense of the Secular State

Name: Godless Constitution A Moral Defense of the Secular State
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ISBN: 9780393328370

ISBN-10: 0393328376

ISBN-13: 9780393328370

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Isaac Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore

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The Godless Constitution is an urgent and timely reexamination of the roots of church-state separation in American politics - and a ringing refutation of the misguided claims of the religious right. In this important polemic two distinguished scholars of American political ideas and religion refute this dangerous attempt to introduce what they term "religious correctness" into our politics, by reminding us that the absence of any mention of God in the Constitution was a conscious action on the framers' part, intended to prevent the bloody religious controversies that so marked European history. They also emphasize that church-state separation was seen as a guarantee of - not a hindrance to…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




Is America a Christian Nation?



The Godless Constitution



Roger Williams and the Religious Argument for Church-State Separation



The English Roots of the Secular State



The "Infidel" Mr. Jefferson



American Baptists and the Jeffersonian Tradition



Sunday Mail and the Christian Amendment



Religious Politics and America's Moral Dilemmas



George W. Bush and the Wall of Separation


A Note on Sources


Index