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The church-state debate : religion, education and the Establishment clause in post war America /
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment governs the relationship between the institutions of the church and those of the state; the Supreme Court, as arbiter of the Constitution, has, since 1947, sought to determine where the line between the two should be drawn. This book shows how and why...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub.,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; A Note on Sources; Introduction; Interpreting the Establishment Clause; Beyond the Court; Education and the Church-State Issue; Part One; School Aid; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Beginnings: Everson and Allen; Laying the Foundations: Everson v. Board of Education; Federal Aid to Education: The Political Context, 1947-1965; School Aid Returns to the Court: Board of Education v. Allen; Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 2; Reassessing the Burger Court; The Emergence of a Test: Lemon v. Kurtzman.
- The Political and Economic Significance of School AidThe Burger Court's Jurisprudence; The Lemon Test Confirmed: Aguilar and Ball; Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 3; Accommodation Triumphant? The Rehnquist Court; Laying the Foundations for Change; The Court Changes Direction: Agostini v. Felton; Concluding Thoughts; Part Two; School Prayer; Introduction; Chapter 4; Engel and Schempp: Controversy and Compliance; Religion and Education After World War II; First Principles: Engel v. Vitale; Establishing Battle Lines: Reaction to Engel and Abington School District v. Schempp.
- Congress, Constitutional Amendments and the Public: 1963-1980Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 5; School Prayer and the Reagan Era; Stone v. Graham: Reigniting the Prayer Debate; Wallace v. Jaffree: Reaffirming the Warren Court; Passions Calmed: The Aftermath of Jaffree; Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 6; All Change? The Rehnquist Court; Lee v. Weisman; Prayer and Politics; Concluding Thoughts; Part Three; Equal Access; Introduction; Chapter 7; The Issue Emerges: Widmar and the Equal Access Act; The First Case: Widmar v. Vincent; Congress and the Equal Access Act; Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 8.