Church, state, and original intent
By: Donald L. Drakeman.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780521119184; 9780521134521
Subjects: United States; Church and state -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States; Constitutional history -- United States
Description: Donald L. Drakeman describes the ways in which Supreme Court justices have portrayed the Framers' actions in a light favoring their own views about how church and state should be separated. He then marshals the historical evidence, leading to a surprising conclusion about the original meaning of the First Amendment's establishment clause: the framers originally intended the establishment clause only as a prohibition against a single national church. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reynolds: the historical construction of constitutional reality; title: Everson: a case of premeditated law office history; title: The battle for the historical high ground; title: Original meanings : where is the historical highground?; title: Incorporating originalism; title: Conclusion.