Freedom of religion, the First Amendment, and the Supreme Court
Subtitle: how the Court flunked history
By: Barry Adamson.
Publisher: Pelican Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gretna, LA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781589805200
Subjects: United States. -- History; United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Freedom of religion -- United States -- History; Church and state -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 399-409) and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical purpose an meaning of the First Admendment's establishment clause the Constitution's establishment clause; title: Religion and government in the 1700s : the "establishment"; title: The states pre-constitution "Declarations of Rights"; title: The states' demands for a "Bill of Rights" as part of the Constitution; title: The First Congress' consideration of a Bill of Rights : May to September, 1789; title: The meaning of "meaning" : words mean today, and tomorrow, what they meant when written; title: The author's own understanding : Congress's Contemporaneous Acts in 1789; title: The author's own understanding : Congress's subsequent acts; title: A meaning consistent with the states' own constitutions and laws in 1789; title: A meaning consistent with amendments proposed by ratifying states; title: A meaning consistent with Madison's passions; title: Irony of ironies : the Supreme Court extends the establishment clause's disablement to the states; title: Jefferson's metaphorical "wall of separation" : a wall of colloquial concoction; title: The Supreme Court flunks history and sends religion, God, and Christmas Underground; title: The consequences of a rewritten history : the Everson aftermath.