
Length9h 25m
About this audiobook
E Pluribus Unum: One Republic from Many Consciences examines how religious liberty, separation of church and state, and freedom of conscience developed from centuries of religious conflict into core principles of the American constitutional system. Drawing on historical documents, founding-era debates, and the experiences of religious dissenters, the book explores why the United States rejected a national religious establishment while protecting the right to believe, worship, doubt, and dissent.
At its center is a simple question: Can one republic remain united without requiring one religious conscience? The book argues that the American founding sought unity through constitutional liberty rather than enforced religious conformity—E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1E Pluribus Unum
2Dedication
3Epigraph
4A Preacher in a Cage
5Preface
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6One Republic from Many Consciences
7Why Liberty Required Separation Part 1
8Why Liberty Required Separation Part 2
9Why Liberty Required Separation Part 3
10Chapter 11
11The First Amendment: What “Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion” Actually Means
12The Text
13The Problem the First Amendment Answered
14Madison’s Original Proposal
15The House Debate
16The Senate and Final Language
17Establishment as an Institution
18Free Exercise as the Companion Protection
19Federalism and the States
20Original Public Meaning
21Neutrality Without Indifference
22Establishment and Free Exercise Together
23The First Amendment and Religious Dissent
24What the First Amendment Did Not Mean
25What the First Amendment Did Mean
26The First Amendment and Personal Autonomy
27The First Amendment and E Pluribus Unum
28Conclusion: Neutrality as Liberty
29Chapter 12
30What the Founders Did NOT Create: Misconceptions About the Founders’ Intentions
31Cultural Christianity and Constitutional Establishment
32The Constitution’s Silence
33Article VI and the Legal Meaning of Public Trust
34The First Amendment’s Double Limit
35Theocracy and Religious Society
36Public Morality Was Not State Religion
37The Treaty of Tripoli and Its Proper Use
38Diversity Among the Founders
39Jefferson Was Not the Whole Founding
40Madison Was Not Anti-Religion
41The Founders Did Not Create Modern Secularism
42State Establishments Do Not Prove Federal Establishment
43The Declaration of Independence Is Not a Church Constitution
44Sorting the Evidence
45The Incomplete Achievement
46Conclusion: What They Created
47Chapter 13
48The Addition of “Under God”: Why the Phrase Was Added in 1954
49The Pledge Before “Under God”
50The 1954 Law