The Original Separation of Church and State in America
Religious freedom in America is guaranteed by the first sixteen words of the Bill of Rights:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.This simple declaration is pivotal. Its adoption in 1791 was the culmination of an era just as sure...
| Published in: | Journal of law and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1984
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Journal of law and religion
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| Summary: | Religious freedom in America is guaranteed by the first sixteen words of the Bill of Rights:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.This simple declaration is pivotal. Its adoption in 1791 was the culmination of an era just as surely as it opened another. The first amendment has inspired almost 200 years of judicial history in which the United States Supreme and lower courts have attempted to fill these plain words with specific content. Its passage climaxed nearly as long a period of significant colonial history. An understanding of that history is indispensable to the interpretation of the first amendment since, as the Supreme Court has said:No provision of the Constitution is more closely tied to or given content by its generating history than the religious clause of the First Amendment. It is at once the refined product and the terse summation of that history. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051090 |