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The Church-State Debate: Religion, Education and the Establishment Clause in Post War America

The Church-State Debate: Religion, Education and the Establishment Clause in Post War America

Long, Emma

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1472522524
ISBN13: 9781472522528
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 2 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment governs the relationship between the institutions of the church and those of the state; the Supreme Court, as arbiter of the Constitution, has, since 1947, sought to determine where the line between the two should be drawn. The Church-State Debate shows how and why the Court drew the line in particular cases and how and why the lines that were drawn by the Court had an impact on the relationship between institutions of government and the Church, shaping US politics and society.

Using the Supreme Court's cases as a framework, Emma Long demonstrates how the constitutional underpinnings of church-state debates shaped the political, economic, and social debate on the issue, and explores broader debates about religion and American society. She maintains that the Court cases cannot be understood separately from the context from which they arose and that legal factors are only part of a broader picture for a historical understanding of the Court and Establishment Clause cases.

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