The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases On Church And State

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This superb collection chronicles the most important Supreme Court cases on church-state relations over the past three decades. It includes extensive coverage of the Court's major decisions concerning prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance, display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious displays on public property, school prayer, vouchers for religious schools, religion in science class, and much more. Edited with a carefully prepared historical introduction that places the First Amendment in the context of 18th-century debates over religious freedom, this book offers a fresh historical analysis of the amendment's origins. Robert Alley presents fifty recent and historical cases without editorial comment, permitting readers to arrive at their own individual interpretation.

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