Disestablishment and Religious Dissent
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Disestablishment and Religious Dissent

Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833

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Disestablishment and Religious Dissent

Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833

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On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing
traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colony's peoples, their country of origin, and religion.

This definitive volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a comprehensive state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events in the soon-to-be-admitted states of Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also considered are disestablishment in Ohio (the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory), Louisiana and Missouri (the first states admitted from the Louisiana Purchase), and Florida (wrestled from Spain under U.S. pressure). The volume makes a unique scholarly contribution by recounting in detail the process of disestablishment in each of the colonies, as well as religion's constitutional and legal place in the new states of the federal republic.

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Yes, you can access Disestablishment and Religious Dissent by Carl H. Esbeck, Jonathan J. Den Hartog, Carl H. Esbeck,Jonathan J. Den Hartog in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Early American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Chapter One. Introduction: The Task, Methodology, and Findings
  10. Chapter Two. Disestablishment in New Jersey
  11. Chapter Three. Delaware: Religious Borderland
  12. Chapter Four. Church and State in Rhode Island
  13. Chapter Five. The Pennsylvania Experiment with Freedom of Conscience and Church-State Relations
  14. Chapter Six. North Carolina: Early Toleration and Disestablishment
  15. Chapter Seven. Religious Disestablishment in the State of New York
  16. Chapter Eight. Disestablishment in Virginia, 1776–1802
  17. Chapter Nine. South Carolina
  18. Chapter Ten. Disestablishment in Kentucky
  19. Chapter Eleven. Disestablishment in Tennessee
  20. Chapter Twelve. Georgia: The Thirteenth Colony
  21. Chapter Thirteen. Church and State in Ohio, 1785–1833
  22. Chapter Fourteen. Disestablishment in the Louisiana and Missouri Territories
  23. Chapter Fifteen. In the Interests of True Religion: Disestablishment in Vermont
  24. Chapter Sixteen. Church and State in Maryland: Religious Liberty, Religious Tests, and Church Disestablishment
  25. Chapter Seventeen. Connecticut: A Land of Steady Habits
  26. Chapter Eighteen. Towns and Toleration: Disestablishment in New Hampshire
  27. Chapter Nineteen. Maine
  28. Chapter Twenty. Florida
  29. Chapter Twenty-One. The Last American Establishment: Massachusetts, 1780–1833
  30. Select Bibliography
  31. Index