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Church, state, and original intent /
Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which Supreme Court justices have portrayed the Framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which Supreme Court justices have portrayed the Framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. --from publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511658457 0511658451 0521119189 9780521119184 0521134528 9780521134521 9780511803598 0511803591 9786612402661 6612402660 0511847688 9780511847684 1107203449 9781107203440 0511657900 9780511657900 1282402668 9781282402669 0511656599 9780511656590 0511655746 9780511655746 0511657145 9780511657146 |