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The separation of church and state in the U.S. and the implications of Christian nationalist rhetoric on this principle.
The 1797 Treaty of —ratified unanimously by the and signed by —contains Article 11 declaring that “the government of the is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,” language that was desig...
The phrase "" in public life is a constitutional principle derived from the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses and a longer history of colonial disestablishmentism, but it is ne...
Research of the provided reporting shows recurring use of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli by separationist advocates and some civil‑liberties and Jewish organizations as historical evidence that the United...
is neither categorically “bad” nor automatically benign; separates institutional religion from government while allowing religious motivations in public life, and that balance produces benefits and ri...
’ 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...