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Though many claim the United States to be a "Christian Nation," Miller reveals the true philosophical and political scaffolding that helped to build the famous "wall of separation" between church and state. Miller traces this fundamental American principle through the three great standard–bearers of religious liberty: Jefferson, Madison, and Roger Williams. Jefferson, who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the precursor of the First Amendment of the Constitution; James Madison, who was politically responsible for Virginia's acceptance of religious liberty and who, a few years later, helped draft the Bill of Rights; and the even earlier figure, the radical dissenter Roger Williams, who propounded the idea of religious freedom not as a rational secularist but out of a deeply held spiritual faith.
The debate these founders began continues today in passionate arguments about civil rights, school prayer, abortion, Christmas crèches, conscientious objection during warfare—and demonstrates how the right to hold any religious belief, including atheism, has dynamically shaped American political life.
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