The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2
Subtitle: From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples" (New Forum Books)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691119236
Subjects: Anthropology; Courts & procedure; Religion: general; Legal History; Freedom of religion; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; USA; Constitutional; Courts - Supreme Court; American History; Law / Constitutional; Political Science and International Relations; Religion; Church and state; History; United States
First sentence: WHEN THE FIRST religion case came before the Court in 1815, the justices referred to the Founding Fathers not for constitutional guidance but merely on a legal point, finding that a postrevolutionary Virginia statute had revoked all colonial land grants made to the Anglican Church and placed them under the state, which had then properly and legally sold some of the land to particular congregations.