The Image and the Reality: Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment

by David Barton

Publisher:

Wallbuilders

, 2003

Overview

In this piece, written for the prestigious Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, David Barton examines the Supreme Court and lower courts’ extensive use of Thomas Jefferson’s phrase “wall of separation between Church and State” in forbidding public religious expressions and exposes the numerous historical fallacies inherent in these modern judicial opinions.

Product Details

• Title: The Image and the Reality: Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment
• Author: David Barton
• Volume: 17
• Publisher: Wallbuilders
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Logos Release Date: 2007
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Law and ethics › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:IMAGEREALITYTJ
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:59:22Z

About David Barton

David Barton is the founder of WallBuilders, an organization which supports the reunification of church and state. In his writing Barton expresses the view that the United States was founded as a specifically Christian nation, which the majority of historians disagree with.