Under God : George Washington and the

No American living in 1800 would have predicted that Thomas Jefferson's idiosyncratic views on church and state would ever eclipse those of George Washington, let alone become constitutional dogma. Yet today's Supreme Court guards no doctrine more fiercely than Jefferson's antagonistic wall of separation between church and state. Washington's sharply contrasting views, explored in this path-breaking book, suggest a more reasonable interpretation of the First Amendment, one that is consistent with religion's importance to the enterprise of democracy.

Tara Ross, the author of Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College (2004), is a graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas School of Law. She lives in Dallas and writes on legal and public policy issues Joseph C. Smith Jr. is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School. A former deputy attorney general of Colorado, he practices law in Denver

Authors' Note	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Public Homage
Commander of the Virginia Regiment 1755-1758	p. 3
Member of the House of Burgesses 1759-1775	p. 17
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army 1775-1783	p. 27
Father of a New Nation 1784-1789	p. 55
President of the United States Before the First Amendment 1789-1791	p. 69
President of the United States After the First Amendment 1792-1797	p. 92
Conclusion: Public Homage	p. 110
Epilogue: Whence Jefferson's Wall?	p. 116
Washington in His Own Words
Commander of the Virginia Regiment 1755-1758	p. 129
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army 1775-1783	p. 133
Father of a New Nation 1784-1789	p. 195
President of the United States Before the First Amendment 1789-1791	p. 200
President of the United States After the First Amendment 1792-1797	p. 230
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 306
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Under God : George Washington and the Question of Church and State

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