Church, state, and original intent

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Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which Supreme Court justices have portrayed the Framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. --from publisher description.

subjects: Constitutional history,  Church and state,  United States,  Constitutional law,  Constitutional amendments, united states,  Church and state, united states,  Constitutional law, united states,  Constitutional history, united states