Introduction / John Witte, Jr.
1. The Separation of Church and State versus Religion in the Public Square: The Contested History of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn
2. Establishment at the Founding / Michael W. McConnell
3. Disestablishing Religion and Protecting Religious Liberty in State Laws and Constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie
4. Roger Williams and the Puritan Background of the Establishment Clause / David Little
5. Toleration and Diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony: The Roots of Americas First Disestablishment / Paul Finkelman
6. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the Meaning of "Establishment of Religion" in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham
7. The Continental Congress and Emerging Ideas of Church-State Separation / Derek H. Davis
8. The First Federal Congress and the Formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck
9. Defining and Testing the Prohibition on Religious Establishments in the Early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach
10. The "Second Disestablishment": The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Understandings of Separation of Church and State / Steven K. Green
11. Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson: Federalism, School Wars, and the Emerging Modern State / Thomas C. Berg
12. Some Reflections on Fundamental Questions about the Original Understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt
13. Getting Beyond "The Myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty