00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009576 20200508204852 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9780190459420 010-0520009576 eng 342.7308 342.7308/WIT/R Jhon Witte Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment Ed. 4 New York Oxford University Press 2016 xiv, 385 p; 21 cm 21 cm Indeks : p.387-403 Thia accessible introduction tells the history of American religious and Joel Nichols provide extensive analysis of the formation of the First Amandement religion clauses and the plausible original intent or understanding of the founders. They describe the enduring principles of American religious freedom--liberty of conscience, free exercise of religioun, religious equality, religious pluralism, separation of church and state, and no establishment of religioun--as those principles were developed by the founders and applied by the Supreme Court. Successive chapters analyze the more than two hundred Supreme Court cases on religious freedom (through the 2015 term), and a final chapter shows how American religious freedom compares with international human rights norms and European Court of Human Rights case law. Freedom of religion--United States; Church and state--United States