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The Constitution and Religion Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State

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ISBN-10: 1573927031

ISBN-13: 9781573927031

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robert S. Alley

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This superb collection chronicles the most important Supreme Court cases on church-state relations over the past three decades. It includes extensive coverage of the Court's major decisions concerning prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance, display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious displays on public property, school prayer, vouchers for religious schools, religion in science class, and much more. Beginning with a carefully prepared historical overview, which places the first amendment in the context of 18th-century debates over religious freedom, Robert Alley offers a fresh analysis of the amendment's origins. He then presents fifty recent and…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.31" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Two Seminal Documents Consistently Cited by the Supreme Court Justices
The Memorial and Remonstrance
An Act Establishing Religious Freedom
The Justices - Dates of Service and Selected Votes
The Establishment Clause
Religious Schools
Public Schools
Other Establishment Cases
The Free Exercise Clause