Compact, Declaration of Faith, and Constitution
Author | : First Universalist Church (Providence, R.I.) |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : First Universalist Church (Providence, R.I.) |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Gorse Hill Baptist Church (Swindon) |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Isaac Kramnick |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393315240 |
The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.
Author | : Sanford Levinson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691152403 |
"The book is intended to make clearer the ambiguities of "constitutional faith," i.e. wholehearted attachment to the Constitution as the center of one's (and ultimately the nation's) political life."--The introduction.
Author | : Goodwin Liu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199752834 |
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.
Author | : Leonard W. Levy |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 146962043X |
Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .' He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the view of 'nonpreferentialists,' who interpret the clause as allowing such aid provided that the assistance is not restricted to a preferred church. For this new edition, Levy has added to his original arguments and incorporated much new material, including an analysis of Jefferson's ideas on the relationship between church and state and a discussion of the establishment clause cases brought before the Supreme Court since the book was originally published in 1986.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Considers amendment to the Constitution declaring the U.S. as a Christian nation.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Author | : Martin Joseph Wade |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
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Author | : Vincent Phillip Muñoz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-08-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226821439 |
An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom. The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitutional law, uncovering what we can and cannot determine about the original meanings of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses and constructing a natural rights jurisprudence of religious liberty. Drawing on early state constitutions, declarations of religious freedom, Founding-era debates, and the First Amendment’s drafting record, Muñoz demonstrates that adherence to the Founders’ political philosophy would lead neither to consistently conservative nor consistently liberal results. Rather, adopting the Founders’ understanding would lead to a minimalist church-state jurisprudence that, in most cases, would return authority from the judiciary to the American people. Thorough and convincing, Religious Liberty and the American Founding is key reading for those seeking to understand the Founders’ political philosophy of religious freedom and the First Amendment Religion Clauses.