The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment

by Thomas J. Curry

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Is government forbidden to assist all religions equally, as the Supreme Court has held? Or does the First Amendment merely ban exclusive aid to one religion, as critics of the Court assert? The First Freedoms studies the church-state context of colonial and revolutionary America to present a bold new reading of the historical meaning of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Synthesizing and interpreting a wealth of evidence from the founding...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195051815

ISBN13:9780195051810

Release Date:December 1987

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

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Ancient & Classical Literature Christian Books & Bibles Christianity Church & State Colonial Period Constitutional Law Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Europe Greek

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