Full name: The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State

Authors: Isaac Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Religion, Non Fiction, Atheism, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393328370 0393328376

The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance. Similar books: One Nation Under God by Kevin M. Kruse The Original Argument by Glenn Beck America's Constitution by Akhil Reed Amar The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R. C. Gutzman The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot Lies the Government Told You by Andrew P. Napolitano American Gospel by Jon Meacham The Soul of America by Jon Meacham The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGerald When Presidents Lie by Eric Alterman Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq Heretic by Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro The King's Two Bodies by Ernst H. Kantorowicz The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon