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Title
The Free Exercise of Religion in America : Its Original Constitutional Meaning / by Ellis M. West.
Edition
1st ed. 2019.
ISBN
9783030060527
3030060527
9783030060510 (print)
3030060519
9783030060534 (print)
3030060535
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIV, 317 p. :) online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-06052-7 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
322.1
Summary
This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof." As the book shows, both clauses were intended to protect the free exercise of religion or religious freedom. West shows the position taken by early Americans on four issues: (1) the general meaning of the "free exercise of religion," including whether it is different from the meaning of "no establishment of religion"; (2) whether the free exercise of religion may be intentionally and directly limited, and if so, under what circumstances; (3) whether laws regulating temporal matters that also have a religious sanction violate the free exercise of religion; and (4) whether the free exercise of religion gives persons a right to be exempt from obeying valid civil laws that unintentionally and indirectly make it difficult or impossible to practice their religion in some way. A definitive work on the subject and a major contribution to the field of constitutional law and history, this volume is key to a better understanding of the ongoing constitutional adjudication based on the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
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1. Introduction
2. Constitutional Rights and Ascertaining their Original Meaning
3. Setting the Stage
4. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in Virginia
5. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Other Southern States
6. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Middle States
7. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the New England States
8. Initial Conclusion
9. The Constitutional Meaning of Religious Freedom: Part One
10. The Constitutional Meaning of Religious Freedom: Part Two
11. Final Conclusion.
