The Constitution & Religion 
Subtitle: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781573927031
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Legal History; Ecclesiastical law; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; United States; Constitutional; Religion, Politics & State; General; Cases; Church and state
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.