The Case for Sunday Mails: Sabbath Laws and the Separation of Church and State in Jacksonian America

as a campaign that mobilized thousands of supporters, anti-Sabbatarianism reveals the attitudes of a significant minority toward church-state relations in the first decades of the republic. […]using a series of petitions from Philadelphia as a sample, I offer for the first time an analysis of the social origin of the signers of these petitions.