[Pt.] I. Late eighteenth-century religious liberty. Separation, purity, and anticlericalism
Accusations of separation
The exclusion of the clergy
Freedom from religious establishments. [Pt.] II. Early ninteenth-century republicanism. Demands for separation: separating Federalist clergy from Republican politics
Keeping religion out of politics and making politics religious
Jefferson and the Baptists: separation proposed and ignored as a constitutional principle. [Pt.] III. Mid-ninteenth-century Americanism. A theologically liberal, anti-Catholic, and American principle
Clerical doubts and popular Protestant support
[Pt.] IV. Late ninteenth- and twentieth-century constitutional law. Amendment
An American constitutional right.