<p>Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, not for those who held other views that they rejected and detested. Yet, by the mid-18th century, the colonistsagreed that everyone possessed a sovereign right of conscience. How did this change develop? In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove tracks the unique course of religious freedom in America.He finds that, as denominations and sects multiplied, Americans became much more tolerant of the free expression of rival religious beliefs. During the Revolutionary era, he explains, most of the new states moved to disestablish churches and to give constitutional recognition to rights ofconscience. These two developments explain why religious freedom originally represented the most radical right of all. No other right placed greater importance on the moral autonomy of individuals, or better illustrated how the authority of government could be limited by denying the state authorityto act. Together, these developments made possible the great revival of religion in 19th-century America.As Rakove explains, America's intense religiosity eventually created a new set of problems for mapping the relationship between church and state. He goes on to examine some of our contemporary controversies over church and state not from the vantage point of legal doctrine, but of the deeper historythat gave the U.S. its own approach to religious freedom. In this book, he tells the story of how American ideas of religious toleration and free exercise evolved over time, and why questions of church and state still vex us.</p>

Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion (Inalienable Rights)

History

Rakove, Jack N.

Americas

Oxford University Press

What Did the Declaration Declare and Dred Scott v. Sandford and Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents

FINKELMAN, Paul

Ellis, Joseph J.

Bedford/St.Martin's

World Turned Upside Down and Declaring Rights and Jefferson vs. Hamilton and: Andrew Jackson v. Henry Clay

Calloway, Colin G.

Watson, Harry L.

Cunningham, Noble E.

World

World Turned Upside Down & Common Sense & Declaring Rights & Judith Sargent Murray

Slaughter, Thomas P.

Skemp, Sheila L.

Paine, Thomas)

World Turned Upside Down & Declaring Rights

Reading the American Past 3e V1 & Declaring Rights & Cherokee Removal 2e & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2e & Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 2e

Johnson, Michael P.

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK

Perdue, Theda

Green, Michael D.

FRANKLIN, BENJAMÍN

America: A Concise History 3e & Pocket Guide to Writing in History 5e & Sovereignty and Goodness of God & Declaring Rights & New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741

Dumenil, Lynn

Henretta, James A.

Brody, David

Zabin, Serena R.

Rowlandson, Mary

Rampolla, Mary Lynn.

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ROBERTS, Randy

Olson, James S.

Sullivan, Blair

Symcox, Geoffrey

What Did the Declaration Declare? & What Did the Constitution Mean To Early Americans? & Declaring Rights

Countryman, Edward

<p>The author's thesis is that the members of the Continental Congresses made political decisions based on the limited alternatives available to them at the time. This theory is intended to disprove more popular views such as the one asserting that the Continental Congresses were driven by radical, ideological members.</p>

The beginnings of national politics: An interpretive history of the Continental Congress

Random House USA Inc

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