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No Establishment of Religion : America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty.
No Establishment of Religion shows how America's ongoing battles over religion and education, immigration, polygamy, religious funding, religious exemptions, and more have made the original and evolving understanding of disestablishment of religion a source of perennial cultural and constitutio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Separation of Church and State versus Religion in the Public Square: The Contested History of the Establishment Clause; 2. Establishment at the Founding; 3. Disestablishing Religion and Protecting Religious Liberty in State Laws and Constitutions (1776-1833); 4. Roger Williams and the Puritan Background of the Establishment Clause; 5. Toleration and Diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony: The Roots of America's First Disestablishment.
- 6. James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the Meaning of "Establishment of Religion" in Eighteenth-Century Virginia7. The Continental Congress and Emerging Ideas of Church-State Separation; 8. The First Federal Congress and the Formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment; 9. Defining and Testing the Prohibition on Religious Establishments in the Early Republic; 10. The "Second Disestablishment": The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Understandings of Separation of Church and State; 11. Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson: Federalism, School Wars, and the Emerging Modern State.
- 12. Some Reflections on Fundamental Questions about the Original Understanding of the Establishment Clause13. Getting Beyond "The Myth of Christian America"; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.