John Witte Jr. teaches law and directs the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author (with Joel A. Nichols) of Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (3rd edition).
Articles by John Witte Jr.
Books
Faith of the Founders
Religion and the New Nation 1776–1826
By Edwin S. Gaustad
The Founders on Religion
A Book of Quotations
Edited by James H. Hutson
The Founders’ Constitution
(5 vols.)
Edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
The Sacred Rights of Conscience
Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding
Edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall
Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805
Faith of the Founders: Religion and the New Nation 1776–1826, by Edwin S. Gaustad. This is the best short, accessible, single-volume treatment of the religious lives, intellectual pathways and church-state politics of the preeminent founders of the United States—Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Washington and Franklin.
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