Profiles twenty individuals in American history who have debated the issue of religious freedom covering such topics as prayer in schools, religious symbols, the Pledge of Allegiance, and more.
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Introduction: Religious freedoms in America -- John Cotton -- Anne Hutchinson -- Roger Williams -- Peter Stuyvesant -- William Penn -- William Livingston -- Isaac Backus -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Lyman Beecher -- Joseph Story -- John Hughes -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Joseph Smith -- Isaac Mayer Wise -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford -- John Collier -- Earl Warren -- John Courtney Murray -- Jerry Falwell -- Appendix 1: Brief biographies -- Appendix 2: Key Supreme Court cases.