Church-State Constitutional Issues explores the often-debated and always topical issue of the relationship between church and state as outlined in the First Amendment. Donald L. Drakeman takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the meaning of the establishment clause, demonstrating how the studies of law, religion, history, and political science provide insight into this relationship, which, since the nation's inception, has been difficult to define.
The study first chronicles the Supreme Court's decision regarding the interpretation of the establishment clause from the early 19th...
Church-State Constitutional Issues explores the often-debated and always topical issue of the relationship between church and state as outlined in ...
This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which the justices have portrayed the Framers actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment s establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. In showing how conventional...
This provocative book shows how the United States Supreme Court has used constitutional history in church-state cases. Donald L. Drakeman describes th...
