Church-State Relationships in America
Church-State Relationships in America

Author: Gerard V. Bradley

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1987-06-16

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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Although the Supreme Court has stated that the framers of the Constitution erected a wall of separation between church and state, history shows that collective political activity in the United States has been and remains an intensely religious enterprise. Despite seemingly clear agreement on the principle of separation, what that principle entails in controversies involving not only the activities and demands of religious groups but the Court itself has proved contentious. Professor Bradley's book is the most comprehensive analysis of the subject attempted to date. It offers a detailed exploration of the historical meaning of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution and church-state relations from the founding period down to the controversies that are a feature of our modern political life.

The Bill of Rights and the States
The Bill of Rights and the States

Author: Patrick T. Conley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780945612292

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Fourteen individual state essays elucidate the complexitites of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences
Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences

Author: Jonathan Michie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 2166

ISBN-13: 1135932263

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This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.

The Religion-Supported State
The Religion-Supported State

Author: Nathan S. Rives

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1793655251

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Between 1776 and 1850, the people, politicians, and clergy of New England transformed the relationship between church and state. They did not simply replace their religious establishments with voluntary churches and organizations. Instead, as they collided over disestablishment, Sunday laws, and antislavery, they built the foundation of what the author describes as a religion-supported state. Religious tolerance and pluralism coexisted in the religion-supported state with religious anxiety and controversy. Questions of religious liberty were shaped by public debates among evangelicals, Unitarians, Universalists, deists, and others about the moral implications of religious truth and error. The author traces the shifting, situational political alliances they constructed to protect the moral core of their competing truths. New England's religion-supported state still resonates in the United States in the twenty-first century.