¹ Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and the Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, 1797, available online at: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html

² Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag1_user.html#amdt1a_hd7

³ Edwards v. Aguillard, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_1513/

⁴ "Free Exercise of Religion" CRS Annotated Constitution, Cornell university Law School, available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag6_user.html#fnb193

⁵ First Amendment to the United States Constitution, available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

⁶ Mueller v. Allen, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1982/1982_82_195/

⁷ Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and the Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, 1797, available online at: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html

⁸ "Free Exercise of Religion" CRS Annotated Constitution, Cornell university Law School, available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag6_user.html#fnb193

⁹ Mueller v. Allen, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1982/1982_82_195/

¹⁰ James H. Hutson, Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 150, 152.

¹¹ James H. Hutson, Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 153.

¹² James H. Hutson, Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 145.

¹³ Mitchell Pearlstein, forward to "The Legal Case—and the Fairness—for Vouchers," available online at: http://www.americanexperiment.org/publications/1996/19960220bolick.php

¹⁴ "School Vouchers: The Wrong Choice for education," Ant-Defamation League website, available online at: http://www.adl.org/vouchers/vouchers_constit_suspect.asp

¹⁵ Mueller v. Allen, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1982/1982_82_195/

¹⁶ Lisa Fabrizio, "Terri Schiavo: Death by Judicial Fiat," Renew America, 1 April 2005, available online at: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fabrizio/050401

¹⁷ Barbara Kralis, "Activist Judge Greer Plays God as Arbiter of Life and Death," Lifeissues.net, 28 February 2005, available online at: http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/kra/kra_22judgeplaysgod.html

¹⁸ Tim Grieve, "DeLay and Schiavo: Who’s Saving Whom?" Salon.com, 22 March 2005, available online at: http://dir.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/03/22/delay_schiavo/index.html; Rob Boston, "Growing Concerns about Religious Right Power," Americans United for Separation of Church and State website, 6 April 2005, available online at: http://blog.au.org/2005/04/06/growing_concern/

¹⁹ First Amendment to the United States Constitution, available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

²⁰ Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and the Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, 1797, available online at: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html

²¹ Mueller v. Allen, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1982/1982_82_195/

²² Edwards v. Aguillard, Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_1513/

²³ "Free Exercise of Religion" CRS Annotated Constitution, Cornell university Law School, available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag6_user.html#fnb193

²⁴ George Washington, Farewell Address, 1797, available online at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp

²⁵ Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the Bey and the Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, 1797, available online at: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html

²⁶ Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, 1 January 1802, available online at: http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

²⁷ Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), available online at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag1_user.html#amdt1a_hd7

²⁸ Everson v. Board of Education, United States Supreme Court, 1947, available online at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/330/1/case.html

²⁹ Quoted in Daniel Clement Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking, 2006), 290.

³⁰ Antonin Scalia, quoted in James Kilpatrick, "Covering the Courts and the Writer’s Art," available online at: http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/index.html?uc_full_date=20050316

³¹ "George Carlin: Blurbs," TV.com, available online at: http://www.tv.com/george-carlin/person/3653/trivia.html

³² James H. Hutson, Church and State in America: The First Two Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 17.

³³ Sarah Wright, "The Cost of Repealing Blue Laws," MIT News, 21 may 2008, available online at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/bluelaws-tt0521.html

³⁴ Daniel Burke, "'Bong Hits for Jesus’ Finds Strange Legal Bedfellows," The Pew Forum: Religion News, 14 March 2007, available online at: http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=13028