Religion on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and DocumentsFrom colonial times to the present, an insightful examination of how courts have determined the extent to which religion is accommodated in American public life.
This volume chronicles such groundbreaking cases as the 1991 decision ordering blood transfusions for children of Christian Scientists in Norwood Hospital v. Munoz and the infamous case, Engel v. Vitale, that banned prayer in schools and ignited calls for Chief Justice Earl Warren's impeachment. The work addresses such inflammatory contemporary disputes as prayer in schools, allegiance to the flag, and the display of religious symbols on public property, and the impact they have had on American society.
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Series Foreword Preface xiii ix PART ONE 1 Introduction 3 The First Amendment, 4 The Wall of Separation, 5 Areas of Legal ... 31 The Nineteenth Century, 33 Post–Civil War Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 34 The Twentieth Century, ...
Smith, 137 PART TWO Documents 145 Court Cases, 145 Historical Documents, 196 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, 215 Key People, Laws, and Concepts 219 Chronology 259 Table of Cases 291 Appendix: Supreme Court Justices since 1900 295 ...
The First Amendment Freedom of religion has always been recognized as an important individual right in the United States, and that right is contained in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which provides: “Congress can make no ...
The First Amendment creates an inherent tension. The Establishment Clause requires that government cannot endorse a specific religion or the practices of a specific religion, but the Free Exercise Clause requires that the government do ...
Congress, which held that inclusion of the words “under God” in the pledge is a violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Antievolution Statutes Darwin's theory of evolution remains a controversial topic. www.abc-clio.com ...