Article: The establishment of religion clause; the First Amendment; its constitutional history and the contemporary debate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The incoherence of neutrality: a case for eliminating neutrality ...
Journal of Church and State;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... definitions of neutrality posited by Supreme Court justices and religion clause scholars. It serves as an introduction to the ease With ... briefly confronts two arguments against the deconstruction of religion clause neutrality. I. DEFINING NEUTRALITY "When I use a word ...

Article: When the subject turns to the Religion Clause of ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...* When the subject turns to the Religion Clause of the First Amendment, it is almost inevitable that the Virginia debates of the mid-1780s come into the discussion. Neglected ...

Article: Douglas Laycock, distinguished professor of law at the University ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  October 1, 2007 ;     655 words ...* Douglas Laycock, distinguished professor of law at the University of Michigan and expert on the Religion Clause of the First Amendment, examines God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law by Marci A. Hamilton (Cambridge). Writing ...

Article: Strict church-state separationists of a fanatical bent routinely ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  October 1, 2007 ;     541 words ... ... claim that exempting religion from government regulation constitutes a violation of the no-establishment provision of the Religion Clause of the First Amendment. Douglas Laycock concludes a fifty-five-page examination of "Regulatory Exemptions of Religious ...

Article: Kent Greenawalt and the difficulty (impossibility?) of ...
Constitutional Commentary;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...When I see a book or article about the establishment clause, there are several things I want to know in order to assess it. First, what kind of approach does it take toward its subject matter? Does it purport to tell us how the framers and ratifiers understood the clause, what their intended

Article: Jesus Heard the word of God, but Mohammed had convulsions: How ...
Journal of Law and Education;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION If one is to believe the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, public school teachers walk a constitutional tightrope every day in class. They violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment when they lead students in pledging allegiance to the American flag, "one Nation, under

Article: Public sociology; the contemporary debate.(Brief ...
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2008 ;     500 words ...9780765803870 Public sociology; the contemporary debate. Ed. by Lawrence T. Nichols. Transaction Publishers 2007 340 pages $34.95 Paperback HM511 Designed to interest average citizens ...