Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Supreme Court Decisions on Church and State
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Religion Clauses
Author: Erwin ChemerinskyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190699736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"The relationship between the government and religion is deeply divisive. With the recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, the First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change dramatically in the years ahead. The Court can be expected to reject the idea of a wall separating church and state and permit much more religious involvement in government and government support for religion. The Court is also likely to expand the rights of religious people to ignore legal obligations that others have to follow, such laws that require the provision of health care benefits to employees and prohibit businesses from discriminating against people because of their sexual orientation. This book argues for the opposite and the need for separating church and state. After carefully explaining all the major approaches to the meaning of the Constitution's religion clauses, the book argues that the best approaches are for the government to be strictly secular and for there to be no special exemptions for religious people from neutral and general laws that others must obey. The book argues that this separationist approach is most consistent with the concerns of the founders who drafted the Constitution and with the needs of a religiously pluralistic society in the 21st century"--
That Godless Court?
Author: Ronald Bruce FlowersPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664228910
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The religion clauses of the First Amendment, which seem simple and clear, have been and continue to be controversial in their application. Church-state issues have never been more complex, controversial, and divisive than they are today. In this helpful and instructive book, Ronald B. Flowers explains clearly and concisely the intricacies and implications of Supreme Court decisions in the volatile area of church-state relations. This is an ideal primer for those Americans who have listened to the debates about what the Supreme Court has and has not said about the relationship between church and state, and where the boundaries between the two have been eroded. It is also ideal for use in the classroom, specifically in undergraduate courses in religion and the court, introductions to U.S. constitutional law, constitutional law and politics, and the Supreme Court. The book is also a helpful tool for pastors, clarifying contemporary church-state issues that impact their churches and parishioners directly and indirectly.
Separating Church and State
Author: Steven K. GreenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501762087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept and helps us understand how it has fallen into disfavor with many Americans. In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and state. That metaphor has come down from Jefferson to twenty-first-century Americans through a long history of jurisprudence, political contestation, and cultural influence. This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law. Green finds that conservative criticisms of a separation of church and state overlook the strong historical and jurisprudential pedigree of the idea. Yet, arguing with liberal advocates of the doctrine, he notes that the idea remains fundamentally vague and thus open to loose interpretation in the courts. As such, the history of a wall of separation is more a variable index of American attitudes toward the forces of religion and state. Indeed, Green argues that the Supreme Court's use of the wall metaphor has never been essential to its rulings. The contemporary battle over the idea of a wall of separation has thus been a distraction from the real jurisprudential issues animating the contemporary courts.
The Constitution & Religion
Author: Robert S. AlleyPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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."--BOOK JACKET.
The Supreme Court on Church & State
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Law of Church and State in the Supreme Court Revisited
Author: David M. AckermanPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781594546426
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The religion clauses of the First Amendment provide that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." In modern times the Supreme Court has frequently construes these clauses to create, in Thomas Jefferson's oft-quoted metaphor, a "wall of separation between church and state". The Court's decisions have precipitated substantial opposition and, in particularly since the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency in 1980, a concerted and partly successful effort to change its separatist constructions of the religion clauses. This volume summarises the doctrinal debates and shifts on the religion clauses that have occurred on the Court during this period. It summarises and examines as well the legal effect of each of the 56 decisions the Court has handed down concerning church and state since 1980.
Religion and the Law
Author: Elizabeth EddyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351493876
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
There are few issues as controversial as where to draw the line between church and state. The framers of the Constitution's Bill of Rights began their blueprint for freedom by drawing exactly such a line. Th e fi rst clauses of the First Amendment provide: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Th e justices of the Supreme Court have not been wanting for advice from self-appointed guardians. Th e diffi culty with such advice is that the contestants are more convincing when they criticize their opponents' interpretations than when they seek to establish the validity of their own.
Separation of Church and State Supreme Court Decisions
Author: Robert DittmerPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This book is formerly known as "Separation of Church and State"This is a sourcebook on the supreme court's decisions on Separation of Church and State.
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court
Author: Ronald Bruce FlowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
It is clear, relevant, and an essential text for the twenty-first century.