The American Constitutions and Religion [1938]: Religious References in the Charters of the Thirteen Colonies and the Constitutions of the Forty-Eight States. A Source-Book on Church and State in the United States.

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A valuable resource for students of church-state relations in the United States, this painstakingly assembled anthology lists every passage with a religious reference in the charters of the thirteen colonies and the constitutions of forty-eight states. Moehlman also includes a useful introduction that provides an overview of church-state relations from the colonial period to the 1930s.

The book is divided into six sections:

Religious References in the Charters and Constitutions of the Thirteen Colonies and Original States, A.D. 1584-1776
Religious References in State Documents of the Revolutionary Period, A.D. 1776-1791
Religious References in State Constitutions, A.D. 1791-1837
Religious References in State Constitutions, A.D. 1837-1876
Religious References in State Constitutions, A.D. 1876-1930
Since the United States Supreme Court Decision in the Louisiana Text-Book Case, A.D. 1930