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Separating church and state : a history /

"This book considers the ongoing cultural and legal controversy over the concept of church-state separation and the metaphor "wall of separation." It examines the origins of the concept and what led to its rise as a popular concept, then to its adoption by the Supreme Court and its fa...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Green, Steven K. (Steven Keith), 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Collection:Religion and American public life (Cornell University Press)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Historical antecedents of separationism
  • Disestablishment and separationism
  • The early national period
  • The Protestant establishment of the nineteenth century
  • Separation becomes constitutional canon
  • Separation's apex and decline.