Encyclopedia of religion in American politics

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Encyclopedia of religion in American politics

Appendices: Speeches and documents. Mayflower Compact (1620)

The fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639)

The act of toleration of Maryland Colony (1649)

The first Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)

Clause XVI of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Thomas Jefferson's draft for a bill establishing religious freedom (1779)

James Madison's "Memorial and remonstrance" (1785)

The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

George Washington's Thanksgiving proclamation (1789)

Constitutional clauses addressing religion (1789-91)

George Washington's letter to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (1790)

President George Washington's farewell address (1796)

Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut (1802)

Excerpts from Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution (1833)

Angelina Grimke's Appeal to Christian women (1836)

South Carolina Governor John H. Hammond's "Slavery is not a sin" speech (1853)

Lyrics to " The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe (1862)

The second inaugural address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Philip Schaff's speech on " The idea of religious freedom" (1888)

Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" (1889)

Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899)

Booker T. Washington's "The religious life of the Negro" speech (1905)

Humanist Manifesto (1933)

Economic justice for all: a pastoral letter on Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy (1986)

Christian Coalition's "Contract with the American family" (1995)