Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2 (eBook)

Establishment and Fairness

Kent Greenawalt (Autor)

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2008
496 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2823-4 (ISBN)

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Kent Greenawalt is University Professor at Columbia University, teaching in the law school, and a former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. His books include Does God Belong in Public Schools? and Fighting Words (both Princeton), as well as Conflicts of Law and Morality and Religious Convictions and Political Choice.

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Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional Bible readings and prayers on school property? Does reciting "e;under God"e; in the Pledge of Allegiance establish a preferred religion? What does the Constitution have to say about displays of religious symbols and messages on public property? Religion and the Constitution presents a new framework for addressing these and other controversial questions that involve competing demands of fairness, liberty, and constitutional validity. In this second of two major volumes on the intersection of constitutional and religious issues in the United States, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which forbids government from favoring one religion over another, or religion over secularism. The author begins with a history of the clause, its underlying principles, and the Supreme Court's main decisions on establishment, and proceeds to consider specific controversies. Taking a contextual approach, Greenawalt argues that the state's treatment of religion cannot be reduced to a single formula. Calling throughout for acknowledgment of the way religion gives meaning to people's lives, Religion and the Constitution aims to accommodate the maximum expression of religious conviction that is consistent with a commitment to fairness and the public welfare.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2008
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: agnosticism • Anthony Kennedy • attempt • beneficiary • Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet • Catholic Church • Chaplain • Christianity • Civil authority • Clergy • concurrence • Conscience • conscientious objector • Consideration • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Criticism • Determination • disadvantage • Discretion • Dissenter • Doctrine • Douglas Laycock • Employment • Employment Division v. Smith • Endorsement test • Engel v. Vitale • Equal Protection Clause • Establishment Clause • Everson v. Board of Education • Exclusion • Explanation • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • Free Exercise Clause • Funding • God • Governance • Impediment (canon law) • injunction • Institution • Jews • Judaism • Jurisprudence • Law Review • Legislation • Legislative history • Legislator • Lemon v. Kurtzman • liberal democracy • Mitchell v. Helms • Morality • nonbeliever • Nonprofit Organization • of education • Orthodox Judaism • Oxford University Press • Pacifism • parochial school • Peyote • plaintiff • Pledge of Allegiance • Plurality opinion • Political Philosophy • Politics • Precedent • premises • Princeton University Press • Principle • Protestantism • Publication • public reason • Public school (United Kingdom) • Religion • Religious Community • Religious education • Religious Freedom Restoration Act • Religious Law • Religious Organization • Religious symbol • religious text • Requirement • salary • school district • School Prayer • Secularism • separation of church and state • skepticism • Standing (law) • State law (United States) • State Religion • Statute • Subsidy • Suggestion • Tax • Tax exemption • theory • Wallace v. Jaffree • welfare • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2823-6 / 1400828236
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2823-4 / 9781400828234