Religious Liberty at the Founding
We the People
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The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause
Michael Wolraich: The most important feature of the classic establishments was that they were controlled by the state. He says in South Carolina, for every established church to be a part of the Protestant establishment, it had to accept five articles of faith. "Disestablishment means, above all, that religious institutions are autonomous from the state," he says.
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