The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment
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The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment
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Author : Nicholas P. Miller
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-06
The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment written by Nicholas P. Miller and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06 with History categories.
Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as the thinkers who spread it.
The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment
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Author : Nicholas Patrick Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment written by Nicholas Patrick Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Christianity categories.
Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as the thinkers who spread it.
First Freedoms
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Author : Charles C. Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006-06-15
First Freedoms written by Charles C. Haynes and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-15 with History categories.
Presents nearly forty documents that help trace the history of the First Amendment, with essays placing each document in their historical context and a facsimile of the document in its original form.
Freedom Of Religion The First Amendment And The Supreme Court
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Freedom Of Religion The First Amendment And The Supreme Court written by and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Church and state categories.
The First Freedoms
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Author : Thomas J. Curry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987-12-03
The First Freedoms written by Thomas J. Curry and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12-03 with History categories.
Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? The First Freedoms studies the church-state context of colonial and revolutionary America to present a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Synthesizing and interpreting a wealth of evidence from the founding of Virginia to the passage of the Bill of Rights, including everything published in America before 1791, Thomas Curry traces America's developing ideas on religious liberty and offers the most extensive investigation ever of the historical origins and background of the First Amendment's religion clauses.
The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment
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Author : Nicholas P. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Religious Roots Of The First Amendment written by Nicholas P. Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Religion categories.
Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts--specifically the discourse of Protestant dissent. He argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promote religious disestablishment in the early modern West. This movement climaxed in the disestablishment of religion in the early American colonies and nation. Miller identifies a continuous strand of this religious thought from the Protestant Reformation, across Europe, through the English Reformation, Civil War, and Restoration, into the American colonies. He examines seven key thinkers who played a major role in the development of this religious trajectory as it came to fruition in American political and legal history: William Penn, John Locke, Elisha Williams, Isaac Backus, William Livingston, John Witherspoon, and James Madison. Miller shows that the separation of church and state can be read, most persuasively, as the triumph of a particular strand of Protestant nonconformity-that which stretched back to the Puritan separatist and the Restoration sects, rather than to those, like Presbyterians, who sought to replace the "wrong" church establishment with their own, "right" one. The Religious Roots of the First Amendment contributes powerfully to the current trend among some historians to rescue the eighteenth-century clergymen and religious controversialists from the enormous condescension of posterity.
The First Amendment
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Author : William H. Marnell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The First Amendment written by William H. Marnell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Church and state categories.
"Bibliographical note": pages [231]-235.
Religious Liberty
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Author : Daniel N. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-08
Religious Liberty written by Daniel N. Robinson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-08 with Law categories.
These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law. The book is aimed at researchers, graduate students and undergraduates in constitutional law, political science, government, constitutional religion and public affairs courses, as well as courses on the First Amendment.
Religious Freedom In America
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Author : Allen D. Hertzke
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-01-13
Religious Freedom In America written by Allen D. Hertzke and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-13 with Law categories.
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—these are matters for heated debate. At a moment when such questions loom ever larger in the nation’s contentious politics and fraught policy-making process, this timely book offers invaluable historical, empirical, philosophical, and analytical insight into the American constitutional heritage of religious liberty. As the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume attest, understanding religious freedom demands taking multiple perspectives. The historians guide us through the legacy of religious freedom, from the nation’s founding and the rise of public education, through the waves of immigration that added successive layers of diversity to American society. The social scientists discuss the swift, striking effects of judicial decision making and the battles over free exercise in a complex, bureaucratic society. Advocates remind us of the tensions abiding in schools and other familiar institutions, and of the major role minorities play in shaping free exercise under our constitutional regime. And the jurists emphasize that this is a messy area of constitutional law. Their work brings out the conflicts inherent in interpreting the First Amendment—tensions between free exercise and disestablishment, between the legislative and judicial branches of government, and along the complex and ever-shifting boundaries of religion, state, and society. What emerges most clearly from these essays is how central religious liberty is to America’s civic fabric—and how, under increasing pressure from both religious and secular forces, this First Amendment freedom demands our full attention and understanding.
The Establishment Clause
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Author : Leonard W. Levy
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-03-01
The Establishment Clause written by Leonard W. Levy and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Law categories.
Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. . . .' He argues that, contrary to popular belief, the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the view of 'nonpreferentialists,' who interpret the clause as allowing such aid provided that the assistance is not restricted to a preferred church. For this new edition, Levy has added to his original arguments and incorporated much new material, including an analysis of Jefferson's ideas on the relationship between church and state and a discussion of the establishment clause cases brought before the Supreme Court since the book was originally published in 1986.