Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State

Colorado Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Joseph Smith, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP

Speaker:

• Joseph Smith, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP

Joe Smith is a partner in the law firm of Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, where he specializes in complex civil trials. He is a former Deputy Attorney General for the state of Colorado and serves as a Trustee for the Independence Institute. Joe graduated from Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School.

About the Book: "No American living in 1800 would have predicted that Thomas Jefferson's idiosyncratic views on church and state would eclipse those of George Washington - let alone become constitutional dogma. Yet today's Supreme Court guards no doctrine more fiercely than Jefferson's antagonistic "wall of separation" between church and state. Washington's sharply contrasting view, explored in this path-breaking book, returns us to a more reasonable interpretation of the First Amendment, consistent with religion's importance to the strength of a republic."

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