UNDER GOD
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UNDER GOD: GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE QUESTION OF CHURCH AND STATE
Authors: Tara Ross and Joseph Smith, Jr.
George Washington was the most admired man of his age, leading the Revolutionary Army to victory over Great Britain, presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and elected to be the first president of the United States. Washington considered religion not only essential for our country but felt it must be actively encouraged by our government.
However, today's Supreme Court bases its position on religion on Thomas Jefferson's obscure "separation of church and state" phrase he wrote in a private letter. Tara Ross and Joseph Smith, Jr. masterfully present Washington's views on freedom of religion from his letters, speeches, and official documents. They also explain how Jefferson's religious separatist views gained a disproportional foothold on the U.S. Supreme Court.
In his first inaugural address in 1861, Abraham Lincoln said, "The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of government upon vital questions affecting the whole people to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court. . .the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."
S-967: Under God
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