What is seemingly lost in the discussion over the meaning of the First Amendment is perhaps the most significant factor. If we truly want to know what "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof" truly means, perhaps its time to discover what it meant to the men who wrote it. This pamphlet is converted from Peter Heck's Master's Thesis on that very topic, showing how the authors of the First Amendment applied it themselves.
