| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Canada and the United States

Timothy L. Hall. Separating Church and State: Roger Williams and Religious Liberty. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. 206. Cloth $44.95, paper $19.95.

Timothy L. Hall is a legal historian. Accordingly, his primary interest in this book is "to make Williams's arguments for religious liberty accessible to legal analysis" (p. 6) by judges and fellow legal historians. He finds the "historical base" for present legal theory on religious liberty to be "shockingly scanty" (p. 4). In large part, this is because of the desire of contemporary thinkers to make Thomas Jefferson's thought the primary fountainhead of tolerationist doctrine, even though, as Hall observes, Jefferson's writing on the matter is surprisingly limited. Roger Williams, on the other hand, thought and wrote on the subject persistently and extensively, but (apart from Hall's own previous work) he is absent from contemporary arguments on First Amendment rights. . . .

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