Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State

1 Introduction2 The President, a Mammoth Cheese, and the "Wall of Separation": Jeffersonian Politics and the New England Baptists 3 "Sowing Useful Truths and Principles"4 "What the Wall Separates" 5 Early References to a "Wall of Separation"6 Creating "Effectual Barriers"7 "Useful Truths and Principles ... Germinate and Become Rooted" in the American Mind: Jefferson's Metaphor Enters Political and Juridical Discourse 8 ConclusionAppendices1 Proclamation Appointing a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, May 17742 Address to the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Anne, 1774 3 Bills Reported by the Committee of Revisors Appointed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1776, 18 June 1779 4 Proclamation Appointing a Day of Publick and Solemn Thanksgiving and Prayer, November 1779 1375 Draft of "The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798," November 1798 (excerpt) 6 Correspondence with the Danbury Baptist Association, 1801-1802 1427 Correspondence with the Citizens of Chesire, Massachusetts, January 1802 1498 Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1805 (excerpts) 9 Letter from Jefferson to the Reverend Samuel Miller, 23 January 1808 Notes Selected BibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author