The Changing State of Church and State (with Noah Feldman)
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Jefferson's Secular View on Religion
The younger Jefferson was a strong supporter of the idea that people should be free to believe or not believe, as they chose. He wasn't especially anti-religious until he went to France and was there in the run up to what would become the French Revolution. And then when he came back to the U.S., New England Congregationalist ministers were strongly against him. That only redoubled his sense that religion was actually kind of a dangerous thing when deployed in the context of public life.
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