Neutrality Needed: Founders Rejected Endorsement of Religion

Date

1991-9

Citation

Douglas Laycock, Neutrality Needed: Founders Rejected Endorsement of Religion, 46 Report from the Capital 4 (September, 1991).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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