Journal of Church and State, January 1st, 2001
Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent. By Derek H. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 309 pp. $39.95.
"No provision of the Constitution," Justice Wiley Rutledge opined in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), "is more closely tied to or given content by its generating history than the religious clause of the First Amendment." In the last half century, mountains of literature on American church-state history have been written in search of the elusive meaning of the religious clause. Much scholarship has focused on church-state relatio...
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