The founders simply wanted to prevent Congress and the federal government from establishing a national religion.

Two hundred fifty years ago, the American Revolution began with the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The Revolution set the stage for a new nation based not on ethnicity or geography or religion, but on ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our ...

Not so very long ago, “separation of church and state” was as American as motherhood and apple pie. Despite perennial debates over the degree of separation, public support for the principle itself has ...

"I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution," declared Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck in a GOP forum late last year. This view ...

It was drilled into me at an early age that part of being an American was the belief in the separation of Church and State. Of course, the foundation of that belief goes back to the earliest history ...

Few constitutional principles are more familiar to the average American than the separation of church and state. According to the Pew Research Center, 73% of adults agree that religion should be kept ...

In two cases this term, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that there’s little room for the separation of church and state in its regressive constitutional ...

A growing popular disregard for the separation of church and state, a circumstance abetted by the current Supreme Court’s contempt for the First Amendment, is taking a toll around the nation. This is ...

Many people know Thomas Jefferson's phrase about a "wall of separation between church and state." Fewer know how that phrase entered constitutional law. It's a curious story, which I discuss in a new ...

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. — Neighbors gathered Sunday afternoon to reflect on a core part of America’s foundation, the separation of church and state with a picnic that blended history with today’s challenges.