Ebook: God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson

"By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the founders' competing church-state political philosophies."--Page [i].;James Madison's principle of state noncognizance of religion -- George Washington on church and state : religion and the civic good -- Thomas Jefferson's natural rights philosophy and anticlerical politics of religious liberty -- Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's church-state doctrines -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson and the establishment clause -- Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and the free exercise clause -- The founders v. the Supreme Court -- The founders and church-state jurisprudence.