Donald L. Drakeman

Church, State, and Original Intent

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780521119184
• ISBN-10: 0521119189
• Artikelnr.: 26487372

Autorenporträt

Donald L. Drakeman is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Church-State Constitutional Issues, and his writings have appeared in Constitutional Commentary, Journal of Church and State, American Journal of Legal History, The Christian Century, Religion and American Culture and several law reviews. He is also co-editor of Church and State in American History. He has served as legal counsel for a coalition of religious organizations acting as friends of the Court in federal church-state litigation, and he has been a member of the Religious Liberty Committee of the National Council of Churches and the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a co-founder and Chairman of the Advisory Council of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and a former co-chair of the Advisory Council for Princeton's Department of Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Reynolds: the historical construction of constitutional reality
3. Everson: a case of premeditated law office history
4. The battle for the historical high ground
5. Original meanings: where is the historical highground?
6. Incorporating originalism
7. Conclusion.