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The free exercise of religion in America :

3030060527

9783030060527

3030060519

9783030060510

The free exercise of religion in America :

[Book]

its original constitutional meaning /

Ellis M. West.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2019]

©2019

1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Constitutional rights and ascertaining their original meaning -- Setting the stage -- The meaning of religious liberty in Virginia -- The meaning of religious liberty in the other southern states -- The meaning of religious liberty in the middle states -- The meaning of religious liberty in the New England states -- Initial conclusion -- The constitutional meaning of religious freedom : part one -- The constitutional meaning of religious freedom : part two -- Final conclusion.

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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.

Springer Nature

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Free exercise of religion in America.

9783030060510

United States., Constitution., 1st Amendment.

Constitution (United States)

Church and state-- United States-- History.

Freedom of religion-- United States.

Church and state.

Freedom of religion.

LAW-- Constitutional.

LAW-- Public.

United States.

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West, Ellis M., (Ellis McKinney),1936-

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