RESTORING FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE

This paper argues that secular legal systems need a better defined space for freedom of conscience because this important right has been crowded out by both freedom of religion and freedom of thought. Based on the principles of the Protestant Reformation, American constitutionalism expanded the idea...

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Main Author: Domingo, Rafael 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 176-193
Further subjects:B Public Morality
B exemptions
B freedom of thought
B Freedom Of Religion
B Accommodation
B freedom of conscience
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