Facts and fictions about the history of separation of church and state.

From: Journal of Church and State | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In the past decade, a veritable cottage industry of important new books, articles, briefs, and judicial opinions has emerged devoted to the history of separation of church and state. (1) We now know a great deal more about the history of separationist rhetoric from Thomas Jefferson's famous 1802 Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association to Justice Hugo Black's opinion in the 1947 Supreme Court case of Everson v. Board of Education. We know more about the odious manipulation of separationist rhetoric by the Ku Klux Klan and other nativist groups against Catholics, Jews, and other ...

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