Congress' Constitutional Role in Protecting Religious Liberty
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vincent Phillip Munoz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 1442250321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz (Notre Dame) provides carefully edited excerpts from over fifty of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Munoz’s substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provides the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Constitution is an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republic’s earliest days to current debates.
Author: J. Waltman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1137300647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the case City of Boerne v. Flores, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Waltman offers the first book-length analysis of the act to show how this case contributes to an intense legal debate still ongoing today: Can and should the Supreme Court be the exclusive interpreter of the Constitution?
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis Fisher
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is often assumed that the judiciary—especially the Supreme Court—provides the best protection of our religious freedom. Louis Fisher, however, argues that only on occasion does the Court lead the charge for minority rights. More likely it is seen pulling up the rear. By contrast, Congress frequently acts to protect religious groups by exempting them from general laws on taxation, social security, military service, labor, and countless other statutes. Indeed, legislative action on behalf of religious freedom is an American success story, but one that renowned constitutional authority Fisher argues has been poorly understood by most of us. Taking in the full span of American history, Fisher demonstrates that over the course of two centuries of American government Congress has often been in the forefront of establishing and protecting rights that have been neglected, denied, or unrecognized by the Court-and that statutory provisions far outstrip, in both number and importance, the court cases that have expanded religious rights. In this concise and insightful book, Fisher presents a series of important case studies that explain how Supreme Court rulings on religious liberty have been challenged and countermanded by public pressures, legislation, and independent state action. He tells how religious groups interested in securing the rights of conscientious objectors received satisfaction by taking their cases to Congress, not the courts; how public uproar over a 1940 Supreme Court ruling sustaining compulsory flag-salutes resulted in a court reversal; and how Congress intervened in a 1986 ruling upholding a military prohibition of skullcaps for Jews. By describing other controversies such as school prayer, Indian religious freedom, the religious use of peyote, and statutory exemptions for religious organizations, Fisher convincingly demonstrates that we must understand the political and not just the judicial context for the safeguards that protect religious minorities. As this book shows, the origin and growth of an individual's right to believe or not believe—and the securing of that right—has occurred almost entirely outside the courtroom. Religious Liberty in America persuasively challenges judicial supremacists on church-state issues and provides a highly readable introduction for all students and citizens concerned with their right to believe as they wish.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Orrin G. Hatch
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0756716276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 292
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