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Separating Church and State - A History (Hardcover)
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Separating Church and State - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and American Public Life
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Total price: R1,150
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Steven K. Green, renowned for his scholarship on the
separation of church and state, charts the career of the concept
and helps us understand how it has fallen into disfavor with many
Americans. In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a
leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of
separation between church and state. That metaphor has come down
from Jefferson to twenty-first-century Americans through a long
history of jurisprudence, political contestation, and cultural
influence. This book traces the development of the concept of
separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application
of it in the law.  Green finds that conservative
criticisms of a separation of church and state overlook the strong
historical and jurisprudential pedigree of the idea. Yet, arguing
with liberal advocates of the doctrine, he notes that the idea
remains fundamentally vague and thus open to loose interpretation
in the courts. As such, the history of a wall of separation is more
a variable index of American attitudes toward the forces of
religion and state.  Indeed, Green argues
that the Supreme Court's use of the wall metaphor has never been
essential to its rulings. The contemporary battle over the idea of
a wall of separation has thus been a distraction from the real
jurisprudential issues animating the contemporary courts.Â
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