Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Religious Liberty
Author: Douglas LaycockPublisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780802876058
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the U.S. appellate courts and Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in four comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. This first volume gives the big picture of religious liberty in the United States, fitting a vast range of disparate disputes into a coherent pattern - from public school prayers to private school vouchers to regulation of churches and believers. Laycock's clear overviews provide the broad, historical, helpful context often lacking in today's press.
Religious Freedom Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Religious Freedom Act Amendments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Law, Religion, and Health in the United States
Author: Holly Fernandez LynchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107164885
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This book explores the critical role of law in protecting - and protecting against - religious beliefs in American health care.
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
Author: Winnifred Fallers SullivanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691180954
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution. Featuring a new preface by the author, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.
Endowed by Our Creator
Author: Michael I. MeyersonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183496
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned religious freedom and how they intended it to operate in the new republic. Endowed by Our Creator shows that the framers understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion could instill virtue and help to unify a diverse nation. They created a spiritual public vocabulary, one that could communicate to all—including agnostics and atheists—that they were valued members of the political community. Through their writings and their decisions, the framers affirmed that respect for religious differences is a fundamental American value, Meyerson concludes. Now it is for us to determine whether religion will be used to alienate and divide or to inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.
Proposed Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Native American Free Exercise of Religious Freedom Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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