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Informationen zum Autor ALAN DERSHOWITZ! the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! is one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individual liberties. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah and the Wiley books The Case for Israel! also a New York Times bestseller; The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved; and What Israel Means to Me. He lives in Cambridge! Massachusetts. Klappentext The religious right is forthright about its goal to Christianize America. The primary weapon in their crusade is! quite ironically! the Declaration of Independence! arguing that it proves the United States was founded on Biblical law. It's more than ironic that the Declaration! of all documents! written by Jefferson! of all of our founders! should be invoked in favor of a Christian America and against the separation of church and state. In this book! Alan Dershowitz proves conclusively that there is absolutely no relation between the Declaration's "Creator" and "Nature's God!" on the one hand! and Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments on the other hand. He provides the documentation to disprove the distortion of our history that today plays a central role in the debate over the Declaration of Independence and the desire of the religious right to misuse it as a weapon of mass distraction in their effort to Christianize America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction: Is the United States a Christian Nation? 1. The God of the Declaration: Is He the God of Todaya s Christian Right? 2. The Christian Righta s Strategy to Turn the Declaration into a Batismal Certificate. 3. What Are "The Laws of Nature and of Naturea s God"? Conclusion. Appendix: The Declaration of Independence. Notes. Index.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individual liberties. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah and the Wiley books The Case for Israel, also a New York Times bestseller; The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved; and What Israel Means to Me. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
