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Freedom of religion, the First Amendment, and the Supreme Court : how the Court flunked history
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Freedom of religion, the First Amendment, and the Supreme Court : how the Court flunked history / Barry Adamson.
ISBN
9781589805200 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1589805208 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., c2008.
Physical Description
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-409) and index.
Contents
The historical purpose and meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause
Religion and government in the 1700s : the "establishment"
The states' pre-constitution Declarations of Rights
The states' demands for a "Bill of Rights" as part of the Constitution
The First Congress's consideration of a Bill of Rights: May to September, 1789
The meaning of "meaning": words mean today, and tomorrow, what they meant when written
The author's own understanding: Congress's contemporaneous acts in 1789
The author's own understanding: Congress's subsequent acts
A meaning consistent with the states' own constitutions and laws in 1789
A meaning consistent with amendments proposed by ratifying states
A meaning consistent with Madison's passions
Irony of ironies: the Supreme Court extends the establishment clause's disablement to the states
Jefferson's metaphorical "wall of separation": a wall of colloquial concoction
The Supreme Court flunks First Amendment history and sends religion, God, and Christmas underground
The consequences of a rewritten history: the Everson aftermath.
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