Marci A. Hamilton

God vs. the Gavel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sets the record straight about the United States' move toward extreme religious liberty and argues for a return to common-sense religious liberty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781107456556
• ISBN-10: 110745655X
• Artikelnr.: 41375378

Autorenporträt

Marci A. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds master's degrees in philosophy and English from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Hamilton is the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty, Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law (with Mark Rozell); Children and the Law; and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. She is also the founder and CEO of CHILD USA, a nonprofit interdisciplinary think tank developing civil rights for children.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Religious Liberty Is Not a License to Harm Others: 1. The problem
2. Children
3. Marriage
4. Religious land use and residential neighborhoods
5. Schools
6. The prisons and the military
7. The right to discriminate
Part II. The History and Doctrine behind Common-Sense Religious Liberty: 8. Ordered liberty: religious liberty and the Supreme Court
9. The decline of church autonomy and the rise of the no-harm rule
10. The path to the public good.