The Constitution & Religion
Subtitle: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9781573927048
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Legal History; Constitutional Law; Religion And Politics; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; Law; Religion, Politics & State; Constitutional; Cases; Church and state; Ecclesiastical law
First sentence: Often my students will ask an obvious question: Why is there a gap in centuries between the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 and the case of Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) which, for the first time in the nation's history, determined that the Amendment's religion clauses apply to state and local laws.