When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict

¿Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.¿ The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clauses¿the Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause¿point in opposite directions. How should courts decide?

About the author

Kent Greenawalt is University Professor at Columbia University.

Summary

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clauses—the Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause—point in opposite directions. How should courts decide?

Product details

• Authors: Kent Greenawalt, Greenawalt Kent
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780674972209
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97220-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Jurisprudence, Political control and freedoms, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Religious freedom / freedom of worship