The sacred rights of conscience

Table of Contents:
Pt. I: Antecedents of the principles governing religious liberty and church-state relations in America. Biblical and European heritages
Pt. II: Creating the principles governing religious liberty and church-state relations in colonial America. Fundamental laws, declarations of rights and public acts on ecclesiastical establishments and religious liberty in colonial America ; Letters, tracts, and sermons on religious liberty and duty in colonial America
Pt. III: Framing the constitutional principles governing religious liberty and church-state relations in the American founding. The continental and Confederation Congresses and church-state relations ; State constitutions, laws, and papers on church and state in Revolutionary America ; Petitions, essays, and sermons on church and state in Revolutionary America ; References to God and the Christian religion in the U.S. Constitution ; The religious test ban of the U.S. Constitution ; The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Pt. IV: Defining and testing the constitutional principles governing religious liberty and church-state relations in the new nation. Religion and the public policy and culture of the new nation ; Religion and politics in the election of 1800 ; Thomas Jefferson and the "wall of separation" ; Christianity, the common law, and the American order ; Reflections on the American church-state experiment
Appendixes. Historical chronology, 1607-1833 ; Summary of deliberations in the First Federal Congress on the First Amendment religion provisions, 1789.