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Religious Liberty and State Constitutions (Hardcover)
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Religious Liberty and State Constitutions (Hardcover)
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In 1787, the new United States of America formulated a
Constitution, which for more than two hundred years has remained
the greatest single advance in the long evolution of democracy and
freedom. The authors of the Constitution, fearing the religious
intolerance and persecution that was typical of many European
governments, deliberately avoided a church-state union and limited
the federal government to purely secular matters. The First
Amendment explicitly stated, "Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; ..". In the debate over the separation between church and
state, attention is often focussed solely on the national
Constitution. The fact is sometimes overlooked that the state
constitutions, some of which were written before the federal
Constitution, include explicit protections of religious liberty and
church-state separation, some even more comprehensive and specific
in their guarantees and prohibitions than the U.S. Constitution.
All of the state constitutions deal with religious freedom and all
support the church-state separation principle. Forty-six states
explicitly protect freedom of worship or conscience, while
thirty-five states prohibit establishment of any state religion.
Interestingly, five states still have provisions requiring that
office holders believe in a Supreme Being, despite the fact that
the Supreme Court declared these requirements to be
unconstitutional in 1961. This comprehensive volume brings together
all of the religious-liberty and church-state provisions of the
fifty state constitutions. The only work of its kind, Religious
Liberty and State Constitutions will serve as a useful
referencework for people in the fields of education, law, and
religion.
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