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"In this book, Derek H. Davis offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas, and goals of the Continental Congress.
Those who argue that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the founders, particularly as it was manifested in the ritual invocations of a clearly Christian God as well as in the adoption of practices such as government-sanctioned days of fasting and thanksgiving, prayers and preaching before legislative bodies, and the appointments of chaplains to the Army. Davis looks at the fifteen-year experience of the Continental Congress (1774-1789) and arrives at a contrary conclusion: namely, that the revolutionaries did not seek to entrench religion in the federal state.
The idea that a modern nation could be premised on expressly theological foundations, Davis argues, was utterly antithetical to the thinking of most revolutionaries."--BOOK JACKET.
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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original Intent (Religion in America)
April 10, 2000, Oxford University Press, USA
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0195133552 9780195133554
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"To more firmly establish the place of original intent in constitutional adjudication, it is necessary in this opening chapter to consider, first, a number of important historical and contemporary perspectives on the debate over original intent and, second, how original intent serves as a guideline to interpretation of the Constitution and First Amendment's provisions concerning religion."
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