RT Review
T1 The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment: Guarantees of States' Rights?
JF A journal of church and state
VO 54
IS 3
SP 449
OP 450
A1 Norton, Brenda J.
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783937041
AB 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.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/css063