Randall Robinson
Author
Language
English
Description
In the sweltering summer of 1789, James Madison penned what would become the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the first sixteen words of this spare prose, the founding fathers of a young government pledged separating of church and state, thus guaranteeing religious freedom for its citizens and establishing a free marketplace for religion in the United States. Utterly unprecedented in Western history, this construction of a government...