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Shapers of the great debate on the freedom of religion : a biographical dictionary

Through biographical histories of individuals involved in the freedom of religion debates, readers will discover how individuals' thoughts, beliefs, and actions affected how the religion clauses are viewed today and throughout American history.
Print Book, English, 2005
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2005
Biography Dictionaries
xxii, 266 Seiten.
9780313318894, 0313318891
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Introduction: Religious Freedoms in America The Interest of Righteousness by John Cotton A Woman Not Fit for Our Society by Anne Hutchinson Soul Liberty by Roger Williams From God and the Company by Peter Stuyvesant A Holy Experiment by William Penn American Whig by William Livingston An Equal Claim by Isaac Backus A Matter between Man and His God by Thomas Jefferson Beyond the Cognizance of Civil Society by James Madison Borrowed from the Bible by Lyman Beecher Judging the New Republic by Joseph Story Dagger John by John Hughes A Temple in the Heart by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Cry of the Oppressed by Joseph Smith An Open Gate by Isaac Mayer Wise A Constitutional Weathervane by Joseph Franklin Rutherford A Nation Made to Order by John Collier Freedoms in the Courts by Earl Warren An American Thesis by John Courtney Murray The Religious Right by Jerry Falwell Appendix 1: Minor Biographies Appendix 2: Some Important Supreme Court Cases