The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment: Guarantees of States' Rights?
This book is not for the casual reader of constitutional law. Although a slim volume, it contains a weighty discussion of the history of US constitutional development that asks whether there is any support in history for the currently popular jurisdictional/states' rights interpretative theory....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 449-450 |
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| Summary: | This book is not for the casual reader of constitutional law. Although a slim volume, it contains a weighty discussion of the history of US constitutional development that asks whether there is any support in history for the currently popular jurisdictional/states' rights interpretative theory. Advocates of jurisdictional/states' rights theory, such as Kurt Lash, Steven Smith, and others, argue that the US Constitution's First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law…”) was not a guarantee of religious freedom but a jurisdictional prohibition against the federal government enacting laws regarding religion, reserving to the states the right to legislate as they please. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css063 |