State Of Religious Liberty In The United States
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Author | : Committee on the Judiciary U. S. House of Representatives |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
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ISBN | : 9781506150833 |
This report from June 10, 2014 examines the state of religious freedom in the United States.
Author | : Vincent Phillip Munoz |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442250321 |
Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz (Notre Dame) provides carefully edited excerpts from over fifty of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Munoz’s substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provides the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Constitution is an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republic’s earliest days to current debates.
Author | : Philip Schaff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2008 |
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Author | : John A. Ragosta |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0813933714 |
For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment. Jefferson’s expansive vision—including his insistence that political freedom and free thought would be at risk if we did not keep government out of the church and church out of government—enjoyed a near consensus of support at the Supreme Court and among historians, until Justice William Rehnquist called reliance on Jefferson "demonstrably incorrect." Since then, Rehnquist’s call has been taken up by a bevy of jurists and academics anxious to encourage renewed government involvement with religion. In Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, the historian and lawyer John Ragosta offers a vigorous defense of Jefferson’s advocacy for a strict separation of church and state. Beginning with a close look at Jefferson’s own religious evolution, Ragosta shows that deep religious beliefs were at the heart of Jefferson’s views on religious freedom. Basing his analysis on that Jeffersonian vision, Ragosta redefines our understanding of how and why the First Amendment was adopted. He shows how the amendment’s focus on maintaining the authority of states to regulate religious freedom demonstrates that a very strict restriction on federal action was intended. Ultimately revealing that the great sage demanded a firm separation of church and state but never sought a wholly secular public square, Ragosta provides a new perspective on Jefferson, the First Amendment, and religious liberty within the United States.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Author | : Philip HAMBURGER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674038185 |
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later. Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through fear and prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist clergy of New England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings to twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation to restrict the role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by theologically liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity and all other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for separation. Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious liberty to require a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined and even transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument of intolerance and discrimination.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Kevin Vallier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190666188 |
Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.
Author | : Philip Schaff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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