Religion on Trial
How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America
The free exercise of conscience is under threat in the United States. Already the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court is reversing the progress of religious liberty that had been steadily advancing. And this danger will only increase if more conservative judges are nominated to the court. This is the impassioned argument of Religion on Trial. Against Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, the authors argue that what the First Amendment protects is the freedom of individual conviction, not the rights of sectarian majorities to inflict their values on others. Beginning with an analysis of the origins of the Constitution and th…
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Weitere Autoren: Machacek, David W. / Mazur, Eric Michael
- ISBN: 978-0-7591-1573-6
- EAN: 9780759115736
- Produktnummer: 22879716
- Verlag: AltaMira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'238 KB
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By Phillip E. Hammond; David W. Machacek and Eric Michael Mazur
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