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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent. By Derek H. Davis. New York: Oxford University Press2000. Pp. xiv, 228. $39.95. ISBN: 0-195-13355-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Laura S. Underkuffler
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 559 - 564
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2001

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1. Brest, Paul, The Misconceived Quest for Original Understanding, 60 B.U. L. Rev. 204 (1980)Google Scholar.

2. Powell, H. Jefferson, The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 885 (1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4. Id. (footnote omitted).

5. Everson v. Bd. of Educ., 330 U.S. 1 (1947).

6. See e.g. Adams, Arlin M. & Emmerich, Charles J., A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses (U. Pa. Press 1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Curry, Thomas J., The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment (Oxford U. Press 1986)Google Scholar; Kurland, Philip B., The Origins of the Religion Clauses of the Constitution, 27 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 839 (1986)Google Scholar; Laycock, Douglas, “Nonpreferential” Aid to Religion: A False Claim About Original Intent, 27 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 875 (1986)Google Scholar; Levy, Leonard W., The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (MacMillan Publg. Co. 1986)Google Scholar; Malbin, Michael J., Religion and Politics: The Intentions of the Authors of the First Amendment (Am. Enter. Inst. For Pub. Policy 1978)Google Scholar; McConnell, Michael, The Origins and Historical Understanding of the Free Exercise of Religion, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1409 (1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Miller, William L., The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic (Kopf 1986)Google Scholar; Pfeffer, Leo, Church, State and Freedom (2d ed., Beacon Press 1967)Google Scholar.

7. For similar conclusions about eighteenth-century views of free exercise and anti-establishment principles, see Underkuffler-Freund, Laura S., The Separation of the Religious and the Secular: A Foundational Challenge to First Amendment Theory, 36 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 837 (1995)Google Scholar.

8. Id. at 227.

9. Id. at 229.