The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First AmendmentOxford University Press, 03.12.1987 - 289 Seiten 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. |
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... meaning and historical purpose underlying the language [ of the First Amendment religion clauses ] has yielded inconclusive results , and it would not be profitable to explore the matter in detail . In the end the Supreme.
... meaning and historical purpose underlying the language [ of the First Amendment religion clauses ] has yielded inconclusive results , and it would not be profitable to explore the matter in detail . In the end the Supreme.
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... matter in detail . In the end the Supreme Court is free to give this language the meaning it chooses . " * Judgment as to the wisdom of my disregarding that advice will have to rest with the reader . Most of the studies on both sides of ...
... matter in detail . In the end the Supreme Court is free to give this language the meaning it chooses . " * Judgment as to the wisdom of my disregarding that advice will have to rest with the reader . Most of the studies on both sides of ...
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... matters judicial or ceremonial . " Moreover , one had to make use of reason in construing the Word of God . Cotton affirmed that " whatsoever is drawn out of the Scripture by just con- sequence and deduction is as well the word of God ...
... matters judicial or ceremonial . " Moreover , one had to make use of reason in construing the Word of God . Cotton affirmed that " whatsoever is drawn out of the Scripture by just con- sequence and deduction is as well the word of God ...
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... matters , Puritan New England began rearranging the com- ponents of Church - State relations into their future American pattern . The model hidden in this new taxonomy , however , would not begin to assume visible shape and substance ...
... matters , Puritan New England began rearranging the com- ponents of Church - State relations into their future American pattern . The model hidden in this new taxonomy , however , would not begin to assume visible shape and substance ...
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2 Church and State in SeventeenthCentury Virginia and Maryland | 29 |
3 Church and State in the Restoration Colonies | 54 |
4 Liberty of Conscience in EighteenthCentury Colonial America | 78 |
5 Establishment of Religion in Colonial America | 105 |
The Southern States | 134 |
The Middle States and New England | 159 |
8 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof | 193 |
Notes | 223 |
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