Thomas J. Curry

The First Freedoms (eBook, PDF)

Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1987
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195364002
• Artikelnr.: 38127866

Inhaltsangabe

* The New England Way in Church and State to 1691
* Church and State in Seventeenth-Century Virginia and Maryland
* Church and State in Restoration Colonies
* Liberty of Conscience in Eigthteenth-Century Colonial America
* Establishment of Religion in Colonial America
* Religion and Government in Revolutionary America, Pt. I: The Southern
States
* Religion and Government in Revolutionary America, Pt. II: The Middle
States and New England
* "Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion,
or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof,..."