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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Free Exercise of Religion in America
    sub title: Its Original Constitutional Meaning
  name:
    name part: West, Ellis M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 317 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof." As the book shows, both clauses were intended to protect the free exercise of religion or religious freedom. West shows the position taken by early Americans on four issues: (1) the general meaning of the "free exercise of religion," including whether it is different from the meaning of "no establishment of religion"; (2) whether the free exercise of religion may be intentionally and directly limited, and if so, under what circumstances; (3) whether laws regulating temporal matters that also have a religious sanction violate the free exercise of religion; and (4) whether the free exercise of religion gives persons a right to be exempt from obeying valid civil laws that unintentionally and indirectly make it difficult or impossible to practice their religion in some way. A definitive work on the subject and a major contribution to the field of constitutional law and history, this volume is key to a better understanding of the ongoing constitutional adjudication based on the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Constitutional Rights and Ascertaining their Original Meaning -- 3. Setting the Stage -- 4. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in Virginia -- 5. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Other Southern States -- 6. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the Middle States -- 7. The Meaning of Religious Liberty in the New England States -- 8. Initial Conclusion -- 9. The Constitutional Meaning of Religious Freedom: Part One -- 10. The Constitutional Meaning of Religious Freedom: Part Two -- 11. Final Conclusion.
  note: by Ellis M. West.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  subject:
    topic: United States-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Religion
  subject:
    topic: US Politics
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional Law
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Society
  classification: BL65.P7
  classification: 322.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030060527
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06052-7
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    record creation date: 190205
    record change date: 20191026202659.0
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