“Congress shall make no law reflecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The First Amendment aims to separate church a

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of rel

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church

How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of ch

"Some time back in the early '00s, when-thanks to Dean John Sexton, my good friends Larry Kramer and John Ferejohn, and other colleagues-I used to hang out at N