Religious liberty : essays on First Amendment law / edited by Daniel N. Robinson and Richard N. Williams.
2016
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Religious liberty : essays on First Amendment law / edited by Daniel N. Robinson and Richard N. Williams.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / Thomas Griffith
Introduction / Daniel N. Robinson
Two concepts of liberty & and conscience / Robert P. George
Religious liberty : the first freedom? / Daniel N. Robinson
The creation and reconstruction of the first amendment / Akhil Reed Amar
Recasting the argument for religious freedom / Hadley Arkes
Let us pray : Greece v. Galloway / Gerard V. Bradley
What are we really arguing about when we argue about the freedom of the church / Michael P. Moreland
Our schizophrenic attitude towards corporate conscience / Brett G. Scharffs
Religion freedom in the world today / Roger Scruton
The first of all freedoms is liberty of conscience / Michael Novak.
Introduction / Daniel N. Robinson
Two concepts of liberty & and conscience / Robert P. George
Religious liberty : the first freedom? / Daniel N. Robinson
The creation and reconstruction of the first amendment / Akhil Reed Amar
Recasting the argument for religious freedom / Hadley Arkes
Let us pray : Greece v. Galloway / Gerard V. Bradley
What are we really arguing about when we argue about the freedom of the church / Michael P. Moreland
Our schizophrenic attitude towards corporate conscience / Brett G. Scharffs
Religion freedom in the world today / Roger Scruton
The first of all freedoms is liberty of conscience / Michael Novak.
Summary
The principal aim of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment was to preclude congressional imposition of a national church. A balance was sought between states' rights and the rights of individuals to exercise their religious conscience. While the founding fathers were debating such issues, the potential for serious conflict was confined chiefly to variations among the dominant Christian sects. Today, issues of marriage, child bearing, cultural diversity, and corporate personhood, among others, suffuse constitutional jurisprudence, raising difficult questions regarding the nature of beliefs that qualify as 'religious', and the reach of law into the realm in which those beliefs are held. The essays collected in this volume explore in a selective and instructive way the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and contemporary confrontations between this liberty and the authority of secular law.
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English
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9781316556214 ebook
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9781316602089 (paperback)
9781107147607 (hardback)
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