Review of: One Nation Under Law: America\u27s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State, and The Founders on God and Government

Mark D. McGarvie\u27s One Nation Under Law is the most innovative recent study of church-state relations in the early republic. McGarvie argues that the separation of church and state resulted from the contract clause of the Constitution, not the First Amendment, and that the separation of church and state was the original intent of the Constitution\u27s Framers. The Framers sought to reconstruct American society along liberal lines, replacing both colonial Christian communitarianism and classical republicanism with a radical new society