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Religion in American Politics: A Short History by Frank Lambert Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-691-14613-6 / 0691146136 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14613-3 / 9780691146133 The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nat |