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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsThe Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and Stateby Robert S. Alley
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This superb collection chronicles the most important Supreme Court cases on church-state relations over the past three decades. It includes extensive coverage of the Court's major decisions concerning prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance, display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious displays on public property, school prayer, vouchers for religious schools, religion in science class, and much more.<P>Edited with a carefully prepared historical introduction that places the First Amendment in the context of 18th-century debates over religious freedom, this book offers a fresh historical analysis of the amendment's origins. Robert Alley presents fifty recent and historical cases without editorial comment, permitting readers to arrive at their own individual interpretation. Book News Annotation:A collection of primary documents in which Alley (humanities, U. of
Richmond) offers no commentary of his own besides selection. For 50
US Supreme Court cases on relations between the church and state over
the past three decades, he presents the full text of the decisions,
the vote of the justices, and selected dissenting opinions. The cases
involve prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance,
displaying the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious
displays on public property, school prayers, vouchers for religious
schools, religion in science class, and other topics. He includes no
index.
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