Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology of Key Events -- Part I -- DOCUMENT 1: First Charter of Virginia (November 20, 1606) -- DOCUMENT 2: Acts of the Virginia Colonial Government on Religion (1624 and 1630) -- DOCUMENT 3: Charter of Massachusetts Bay (March 4, 1629) -- DOCUMENT 4: Acts of the Massachusetts Colonial Government on Religion (1631, 1635, and 1638) -- DOCUMENT 5: Massachusetts Body of Liberties (December 10, 1641) -- DOCUMENT 6: Massachusetts School Law (November 11, 1647) -- DOCUMENT 7: Maryland Toleration Act (April 21, 1649) -- DOCUMENT 8: Rhode Island Charter (July 8, 1663) -- DOCUMENT 9: The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience (William Penn, 1670) -- DOCUMENT 10: Great Law of Pennsylvania (December 7, 1682) -- DOCUMENT 11: A Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke, 1689) -- DOCUMENT 12: Charter of Privileges of Pennsylvania (Granted by William Penn, October 28, 1701) -- DOCUMENT 13: Letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (The Reverend Thomas Barton, November 8, 1762) -- DOCUMENT 14: An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty (The Reverend Isaac Backus, 1773) -- Part II -- DOCUMENT 15: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776) -- DOCUMENT 16: Articles on Religion in the Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights and Constitution (1776) -- DOCUMENT 17: Articles on Religion in the Maryland Declaration of Rights (1776) -- DOCUMENT 18: The Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (1780) -- DOCUMENT 19: Liberty of Worship in America (Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782) -- DOCUMENT 20: An Argument for Religious Liberty in Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson, 1782) -- DOCUMENT 21: Letter on the Selection of a Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States of America (Father John Carroll, February 27, 1785).

DOCUMENT 22: Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (James Madison, June 20, 1785) -- DOCUMENT 23: The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1786) -- DOCUMENT 24: Article VI of the United States Constitution (1787) -- DOCUMENT 25: An Argument Against a Religious Test for Public Office (Oliver Ellsworth, December 17, 1787) -- DOCUMENT 26: The Federalist 51 (Publius [James Madison], February 6, 1788) -- DOCUMENT 27: Speech on Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives (James Madison, June 8, 1789) -- DOCUMENT 28: Discussion in the House of Representatives on Constitutional Guarantees of Religious Liberty (August 15, 1789) -- DOCUMENT 29: Action in the Senate on Constitutional Guarantees of Religious Liberty (September 3 and 9, 1789) -- DOCUMENT 30: Clauses on Religion in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution (December 15, 1791) -- Part III -- DOCUMENT 31: Reynolds v. United States (1879) -- DOCUMENT 32: Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (1925) -- DOCUMENT 33: Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) -- DOCUMENT 34: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) -- DOCUMENT 35: Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1943) -- DOCUMENT 36: United States v. Ballard (1944) -- DOCUMENT 37: Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1944) -- DOCUMENT 38: Braunfeld v. Brown (1961) -- DOCUMENT 39: Sherbert v. Verner (1963) -- DOCUMENT 40: Welsh v. United States (1970) -- DOCUMENT 41: Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) -- DOCUMENT 42: Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (1981) -- DOCUMENT 43: United States v. Lee (1982) -- DOCUMENT 44: Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) -- DOCUMENT 45: Goldman v. Weinberger (1986) -- DOCUMENT 46: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988).

DOCUMENT 47: Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) -- Part IV -- DOCUMENT 48: Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township (1947) -- DOCUMENT 49: Zorach v. Clauson (1952) -- DOCUMENT 50: McGowan v. Maryland (1961) -- DOCUMENT 51: Engel v. Vitale (1962) -- DOCUMENT 52: School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp (1963) -- DOCUMENT 53: Board of Education of Central School District No. 1 v. Allen (1968) -- DOCUMENT 54: Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970) -- DOCUMENT 55: Lemon v. Kurtzman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania (1971) -- DOCUMENT 56: Meek v. Pittenger (1975) -- DOCUMENT 57: Wolman v. Walter (1977) -- DOCUMENT 58: Mueller v. Allen (1983) -- DOCUMENT 59: Marsh v. Chambers (1983) -- DOCUMENT 60: The Equal Access Act (1984) -- DOCUMENT 61: Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) -- DOCUMENT 62: Aguilar v. Felton (1985) -- DOCUMENT 63: Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) -- DOCUMENT 64: Allegheny County v. American Civil Liberties Union, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter (1989) -- DOCUMENT 65: Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990) -- Part V -- DOCUMENT 66: Lee v. Weisman (1992) -- DOCUMENT 67: Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993) -- DOCUMENT 68: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993) -- DOCUMENT 69: Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993) -- DOCUMENT 70: Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) -- DOCUMENT 71: Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994) -- DOCUMENT 72: Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995) -- DOCUMENT 73: Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995) -- DOCUMENT 74: President Clinton's Statement on Religious Expression in Public Schools (July 13, 1995) -- DOCUMENT 75: Agostini v. Felton (1997).

DOCUMENT 76: City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) -- DOCUMENT 77: Religious Diversity in the United States of America (1998) -- Appendix: Categorical Listings of U. S. Supreme Court Cases Treated in This Volume -- Glossary -- Index.