Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Study of the American relationship between church and state tends to focus either on the founding period or the modern era. Steven Green argues that a crucial development occurred during the 19th century: a second disestablishment. By the early 1800s, formal, political disestablishment had occurred nationally and among the states. Yet America remained a Christian nation. In the 19th century, legal and educational reforms and a growing appreciation of the nation'sreligious diversity led to a second disestablishment. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment Clause and the modern Supreme Court's…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-539967-7
- EAN: 9780195399677
- Produktnummer: 22183577
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 472 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.3 cm 780 g
- Gewicht: 780
Über den Autor
Steven K. Green is a Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon., where he directs the interdisciplinary Center for Religion, Law and Democracy. Green is the co-author of Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court, a case-book on church and state, and the author of more than two dozen scholarly articles on religion, law and history. He received a law degree from the University of Texas and amasters and PhD in constitutional history from the University of North Carolina.
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