03571nam 22005655 450 991033805730332120230810163825.03-030-06052-710.1007/978-3-030-06052-7(CKB)4100000007598559(DE-He213)978-3-030-06052-7(MiAaPQ)EBC5675639(PPN)259455261(EXLCZ)99410000000759855920190205d2019 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Free Exercise of Religion in America Its Original Constitutional Meaning /by Ellis M. West1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (XIV, 317 p.) 3-030-06051-9 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.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.Religion and politicsAmericaPolitics and governmentConstitutional lawReligion and sociologyPolitics and ReligionAmerican PoliticsConstitutional LawSociology of ReligionReligion and politics.AmericaPolitics and government.Constitutional law.Religion and sociology.Politics and Religion.American Politics.Constitutional Law.Sociology of Religion.322.1342.730852West Ellis Mauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063374BOOK9910338057303321The Free Exercise of Religion in America2531991UNINA