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No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state, and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, Jefferson's wall is accepted by many Americans as a concise description of the U.S. Constitution's church-state arrangement and conceived as a virtual rule of constitutional law. Despite the enormous influence of the wall metaphor, almost no scholarship has investigated the text of the Danbury letter, the context in which it was written, or Jefferson's understanding of his famous phrase. Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State offers an in-depth examination of the origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-139780814719367
eBay Product ID (ePID)96736260
Product Key Features
Number of Pages283 Pages
Publication NameThomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaConstitutional Law
AuthorDaniel Dreisbach
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight408 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDaniel Dreisbach