@article{1360210,
      recid = {1360210},
      author = {West, Ellis M.},
      title = {The Free Exercise of Religion in America : Its Original  Constitutional Meaning /},
      publisher = {Springer International Publishing :},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (XIV, 317 p. :)},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1360210},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06052-7},
}