The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment
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Author | : Kent Greenawalt |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-06-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674978005 |
Download When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Congress shall make no law reflecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clauses—the Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause—point in opposite directions. How should courts decide?
Author | : Ellis M. West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : 9780739146781 |
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Were the religion clauses of the First Amendment intended to protect individuals' right to religious freedom and equality or the states' traditional right to legislate on religion? This book examines all the arguments and historical evidence relating to this question, and demonstrates, contrary to the views of some scholars and Supreme Court justices, that the clauses were sought, drafted, and originally understood not as guarantees of states' rights but as normative restraints on the national government's power over religion.
Author | : Erwin Chemerinsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190699736 |
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"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"--
Author | : Leonard W. Levy |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 146962043X |
Download The Establishment Clause Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .' He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the view of 'nonpreferentialists,' who interpret the clause as allowing such aid provided that the assistance is not restricted to a preferred church. For this new edition, Levy has added to his original arguments and incorporated much new material, including an analysis of Jefferson's ideas on the relationship between church and state and a discussion of the establishment clause cases brought before the Supreme Court since the book was originally published in 1986.
Author | : Ellis M. West |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0739146793 |
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The First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ." The Supreme Court has consistently held that these words, usually called the "religion clauses," were meant to prohibit laws that violate religious freedom or equality. In recent years, however, a growing number of constitutional law and history scholars have contended that the religion clauses were not intended to protect religious freedom, but to reserve the states' rights to legislate on. If the states' rights interpretation of the religion clauses were correct and came to be accepted by the Supreme Court, it could profoundly affect the way the Court decides church-state cases involving state laws. It would allow the states to legislate on religion-even to violate religious freedom, discriminate on the basis of religion, or to establish a particular religion. This book carefully, thoroughly, and critically examines all the arguments for such an interpretation and, more importantly, all the available historical evidence. It concludes that the clauses were meant to protect religious freedom and equality of the individuals not the states' rights
Author | : Francis William O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Erwin Chemerinsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-07-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190699744 |
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Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided. And, with recent changes in the composition of the Supreme Court, First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change dramatically in the years ahead. In The Religion Clauses, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman, two of America's leading constitutional scholars, begin by explaining how freedom of religion is enshrined in the First Amendment through two provisions. They defend a robust view of both clauses and work from the premise that that the establishment clause is best understood, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, as creating a wall separating church and state. After examining all the major approaches to the meaning of the Constitution's religion clauses, they contend 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. In an America that is only becoming more diverse with respect to religion, this is not only the fairest approach, but the one most in tune with what the First Amendment actually prescribes. Both a pithy primer on the meaning of the religion clauses and a broad-ranging indictment of the Court's misinterpretation of them in recent years, The Religion Clauses shows how a 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.
Author | : Leonard Williams Levy |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .' He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the view of 'nonpreferentialists, ' who interpret the clause as allowing such aid provided that the assistance is not restricted to a preferred church.For this new edition, Levy has added to his original arguments and incorporated much new material, including an analysis of Jefferson's ideas on the relationship between church and state and a discussion of the establishment clause cases brought before the Supreme Court since the book was originally published in 1986.
Author | : Alan Brownstein |
Publisher | : Bill of Rights |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download The Establishment of Religion Clause Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With a focus on broad themes and core ideas, this excellent collection of articles will be of great use to those interested in the history of the Constitution, Establishment Clause, and current debates surrounding its interpretation.
Author | : Arlin M. Adams |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-02-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0812292324 |
Download A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Here is a concise overview of the historical development and judicial interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses. It begins with a survey of the history of American religious liberty, goes on to present the views of the Founding Fathers, and then considers the core value of religious liberty and the constitutional purposes that implement that value. the book ends on a practical note by applying these principles to questions of equal access, religious symbolism in public life, and the task of defining religion for constitutional purposes. As the authors note in their introduction, "the historical principles that animate the religion clauses are more than an abstract intellectual exercise. . . . They provide an essential context for guiding the resolution of modern religious liberty issues."