The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"Princeton University Press, 10. jan. 2009 - 272 strani School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion in this country is still fluid and changing. |
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... his summary was only three paragraphs in length) made the fullest examination to date of the intentions of the Framers with respect to the Religion Clauses. Several states, he recalled, had objected to the absence of 4 CHAPTER ONE.
... Framers] to write into the Constitution the subordina- tion of general civil authority to sectarian scruples.”12 Frankfurter also made an argument with implications vastly wider than the Religion Clauses themselves, when he insisted ...
... Framers had rejected that idea, but the Court now threatened to function precisely as such a body.54 In the Walz case (1970)55 upholding tax exemptions for churches, War- ren judged that the Court had so often rehearsed the history of ...
... Framers had not placed a similar provision in the federal Constitution, and there were numerous state laws at the time which were not harmonious with the federal document.71 In a 1981 case involving the rights of a Jehovah's Witness who ...
... Framers permitted legislative prayers, since under the pressures of the moment legislators often “do not pass sober constitutional judgment on every piece of legisla- tion they enact.” Madison voted for the legislative chaplains that he ...
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