The Godless Constitution

The Case against Religious Correctness

Bibliographic Data

ID11675935
AuthorsT Jeremy Gunn (corresponding author), Isaac Kramnick, R Laurence Moore
Year1997
Volume17
Issue1
Pages142-142
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3124652
OpenAlexW1974922344
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The Godless Constitution is an urgent and timely reexamination of the roots of church-state separation in American politics - and a ringing refutation of the misguided claims of the right. In this important polemic two distinguished scholars of American political ideas and religion refute this dangerous attempt to introduce what they term religious correctness into our politics, by reminding us that the absence of any mention of God in the Constitution was a conscious action on the framers' part, intended to prevent the bloody controversies that so marked European history. They also emphasize that church-state separation was seen as a guarantee of - not a hindrance to - religions liberty. Fully respecting the importance of religion in the public sphere, yet forthright in defining proper limits, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American democracy - and a guide to keeping them intact in the forthcoming presidential campaign

Constitution · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Religion and Society Interactions

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