Constitutional Scholar and Historian

Matthew Spalding

1 article 1998

Matthew Spalding is a constitutional scholar and historian associated with the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998, writing on America's founding principles and history.

PRESENT AT THE CREATION

August 3, 1998 · Magazine, Books and Arts

The Supreme Court's doctrine of a wall between church and state has become something more in America than merely legal opinion. It is a shibboleth, an icon, a touchstone. It seems almost an article of faith, and it surely must be what the founders themselves intended for the nation: the third in a…