Author: Steven Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-12
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780199741595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Everson v. Board of Education, which mandated that the Establishment Clause applied to state and local governments. Steven Green illuminates this neglected period, arguing that during the 19th century there was a "second disestablishment." By the early 1800s, formal political disestablishment was the rule at the national level, and almost universal among the states. Yet the United States remained a Christian nation, and Protestant beliefs and values dominated American culture and institutions. Evangelical Protestantism rose to cultural dominance through moral reform societies and behavioral laws that were undergirded by a maxim that Christianity formed part of the law. Simultaneously, law became secularized, religious pluralism increased, and the Protestant-oriented public education system was transformed. This latter impulse set the stage for the constitutional disestablishment of the twentieth century. The Second Disestablishment examines competing ideologies: of evangelical Protestants who sought to create a "Christian nation," and of those who advocated broader notions of separation of church and state. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment Clause and the modern Supreme Court's church-state decisions.
Author: Luis F. Lugo
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781572332614
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Publisher:
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781333030520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Disestablishment VI. Mwoa Pom'rs. - Needlework. - Technical Instruction - Free dam of Choice for Class Subjects - Grammar - History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Dale McConkey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780739104835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society.
Author: Roundell Palmer (1st Earl of Selbourne.)
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
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