At Law & Liberty, Donald L. Drakeman & Lisa Drakeman: The Wine Key to the Constitution. From the introduction:
In 1788, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter from Paris to an American, his partner in a business venture importing fine French wines to Virginia. That letter would change constitutional history almost a century later. In fact, the “wall of separation between church and state” would never have entered our legal lexicon but for Thomas Jefferson’s love of what the Founders called “claret”—red wines from the Bordeaux region of France.
This is just one example of how focusing on the Founders and their wines can offer striking insights into constitutional meaning. We thought we would share both those observations and some recommendations for wines to go along with them. Think of it as an exercise in discovering constitutional veritas in vino.
Today’s essay is a Constitution Day appetizer featuring church, state, and claret. Here is how the vineyards of Bordeaux led to the wall of separation between church and state. …
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