Description: Agreeing to Disagree : How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience, Hardcover by Chapman, Nathan S. ; McConnell, Michael W., ISBN 0195304667, ISBN-13 9780195304664, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," may be the most contentious and misunderstood provision of the entire . Constitution. It lies at the heart of America's culture wars. But what, exactly, is an "establishment of religion"? And what is a law "respecting" it? Many commentators reduce the clause to "the separation of church and state." This implies that church and state are at odds, that the public sphere must be secular, and that the Establishment Clause is in tension with the Free Exercise of Religion Clause. All of these implications misconstrue the Establishment Clause's original purpose and enduring value for a religiously pluralistic society. The clause facilitatesreligious diversity and guarantees equality of religious freedom by prohibiting the government from coercing or inducing citizens to change their religious beliefs and practices. This book details the theological, political, and philosophical underpinnings of the Establishment Clause, state disestablishment, and the disestablishment norms applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. Americans in the early Republic were intimately acquainted with the laws used in England, the colonies, and early states to enforce religious uniformity. The Establishment Clause was understood to prohibit the government from incentivizing such uniformity. This book shows how the . Supreme Court has largely implemented these purposes in cases addressing prayer in school, state funding of religious schools, religious symbols on public property, and limits on religious accommodations"--
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Book Title: Agreeing to Disagree : How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Constitutional, Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, General, Legal History
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.9 in
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Genre: Law
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Item Length: 5.9 in
Author: Michael W. Mcconnell, Nathan S. Chapman
Book Series: Inalienable Rights Ser.
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Hardcover
