The Constitution of South Carolina, Vol. 3
Subtitle: Church and State, Morality and Free Expression
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: June 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780872498334
Subjects: Christianity; Constitutional & administrative law; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Church And Government; Legal Reference / Law Profession; History: American; Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; South Carolina
First sentence: The history of the relationship of government to religion demonstrates a recurring vacillation between two polar opposite approaches: a view that religion is one of several means of social control by which the state can keep the population meekly in check, and the view that religion represents a highly personal approach by an individual to God that cannot be dictated by the state.