One Nation under Law: America's Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State

The U.S. Constitution prohibited the federal government from establishing a national religion, yet American colonies and early state governments operated state-supported religious institutions and continued to do so for a half-century a the creation of the United States. In "One Nation under Law", Mark D. McGarvie draws on the experiences of three key states - New York South Carolina, and New Hampshire - to illustrate the efforts to disentangle church and state during the early national period.