Author: William PALMER (Baptist Minister)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
What is meant by a Separation of Church and State? Is it desirable, and ought it to be effected?.
Author: William PALMER (Baptist Minister)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Voice of truth; or, Strict baptists' magazine
Author: The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Separation of Church and State
Author: Philip HAMBURGERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038185
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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.
The Separation of Church and State
Author: Forrest ChurchPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080707747X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Now in paperback, a primer of essential writings about one of the cornerstones of our democracy by the original authors of the Constitution, edited by preeminant liberal theologian Forrest Church. Americans will never stop debating the question of church-state separation, and such debates invariably lead back to the nation’s beginnings and the founders’ intent. The Separation of Church and State presents a basic collection of the founders’ teachings on this topic. This concise primer gets past the rhetoric that surrounds the current debate, placing the founders’ vivid writings on religious liberty in historical perspective. Edited and with running commentary by Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.
Creationism's Trojan Horse
Author: Barbara ForrestPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195319737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The Wedge has intruded itself successfully into educational politics at the local, state, and now national levels."--BOOK JACKET.
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"--
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State
Author: Daniel DreisbachPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state," and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate.
Our Rights
Author: David J. BodenhamerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195325672
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"This boxed set contains classroom resources to help America's educators teach about the most important documents in U.S. history"--Box
Humanum Genus
Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII)Publisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : la
Pages : 116
Book Description