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No establishment of religion : America's original contribution to religious liberty /
The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American inno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / John Witte, Jr.
- The separation of church and state versus religion in the public square : the contested history of the Establishment Clause / T. Jeremy Gunn
- Establishment at the founding / Michael W. McConnell
- Disestablishing religion and protecting religious liberty in state laws and constitutions (1776-1833) / Mark D. McGarvie
- Roger Williams and the Puritan background of the Establishment Clause / David Little
- Toleration and diversity in New Netherland and the Duke's Colony : the roots of America's first disestablishment / Paul Finkelman
- James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and the meaning of "establishment of religion" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Ralph Ketcham
- The Continental Congress and emerging ideas of church-state separation / Derek H. Davis
- The First Federal Congress and the formation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment / Carl H. Esbeck
- Defining and testing the prohibition on religious establishments in the early Republic / Daniel L. Dreisbach
- The "second disestablishment" : the evolution of nineteenth-century understandings of separation of church and state / Steven K. Green
- Disestablishment from Blaine to Everson : federalism, school wars, and the emerging modern state / Thomas C. Berg
- Some reflections on fundamental questions about the original understanding of the Establishment Clause / Kent Greenawalt
- Getting beyond "the myth of Christian America" / Martin E. Marty.