Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
On the constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Church, State, and Freedom
Author: Leo PfefferPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532644523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
“I believe that complete separation of church and state is one of those miraculous things which can be best for religion and best for the state, and the best for those who are religious and those who are not religious.” – Leo Pfeffer Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. These sixteen words epitomize a radical experiment unique in human history . . . It is the purpose of this book to examine how this experiment came to be made, what are the implications and consequences of its application to democratic living in America today, and what are the forces seeking to frustrate and defeat that experiment. (From the Foreword)
On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each: with aids towards a right judgment on the late Catholic Bill
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
Lay Sermons
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher: Bollingen Foundation
ISBN: 9780691098739
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This edition of the Lay Sermons contains The Statesman's Manual and A Lay Sermon, printed from their original editions. In his introduction R. J. White presents the personal and political background of the Lay Sermons and recounts their reception.
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 Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Church and State Through the Centuries
Author: Sidney Z. EhlerPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601896
Category : Church
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Religion Clauses
Author: Howard GillmanPublisher:
ISBN: 0190699736
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In The Religion Clauses, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman examine the extremely controversial issue of the relationship between religion and government. They argue for a separation of church and state. To the greatest extent possible, the government should remain secular. At the same, time they contend that religion should not provide a basis for an exemptions from general laws, such as those prohibiting discrimination or requiring the provision of services.