Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

Summer 2006

Abstract

Mark D. McGarvie's One Nation Under Law is the most innovative recent study of church-state relations in the early republic. McGarvie argues that the separation of church and state resulted from the contract clause of the Constitution, not the First Amendment, and that the separation of church and state was the original intent of the Constitution's Framers. The Framers sought to reconstruct American society along liberal lines, replacing both colonial Christian communitarianism and classical republicanism with a radical new society.

Publication Title

Journal of the Early Republic

Volume

26

Issue

2

First Page

333

Last Page

338

Required Publisher's Statement

© 2006, University of Pennsylvania Press. Neem, Johan, "One Nation Under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State (review)" and "The Founders on God and Government (review)." Journal of the Early Republic, 26.2 (2006): 333-338.

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Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Church and state--United States--History

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

McGarvie, Mark D. (Mark Douglas), 1956-. One nation under law

Geographic Coverage

United States--History

Genre/Form

reviews (documents)

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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