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The Constitution mentions religion directly only twice: Article VI forbids religious tests for federal office and the First Amendment (ratified 1791) bars “establishment” and protects “free exercise,”...
Thomas Jefferson’s personal religious views — skeptical of orthodox Christianity, committed to Enlightenment reason, and a devout advocate for religious liberty — shaped his public push to insulate go...
’ approach to “church and state” is rooted in the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses and in decades of court rulings that have interpreted those clauses to mean government may n...
Thomas Jefferson’s personal Deism influenced his thinking about church–state relations and produced concrete policy products — most notably the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and his “wall of ...