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The constitution & religion : leading Supreme Court cases on church and state / edited by Robert S. Alley.

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Two Seminal Documents Consistently Cited by the Supreme Court Justices. Memorial and Remonstrance / James Madison. Act Establishing Religious Freedom / Thomas Jefferson -- Justices -- Dates of Service and Selected Votes -- I. Establishment Clause. A. Religious Schools. B. Public Schools. C. Other Establishment Cases -- II. Free Exercise Clause.
Abstract "It has been sixty years since the Supreme Court first addressed the subject of "Church and State" under what has come to be known as the incorporation doctrine, interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as extending the First Amendment "religion clauses" to state and municipal actions." "Edited with a carefully prepared historical introduction that places the First Amendment in the context of eighteenth-century debates over religious freedom, The Constitution and Religion offers a fresh analysis of the amendment's origins. In a collection of fifty recent and historical decisions concerning freedom of religion, Robert S. Alley places readers at the heart of the national debate, presenting the cases without editorial comment. By carefully extracting extended footnoting and citations that, in the full text, tend to separate legal opinions from public interest, Alley has cast the justices' thoughts in a format that captures the drama and, frequently, the eloquence of the prose that is, for now, the law of the land."--Jacket.

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KF4865A7C74

Publisher

New York : Amherst, N.Y.., 1999

Physical Description

545 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

157392704X

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Law

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