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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Levy, Leonard W. (Leonard Williams), 1923-2006. Establishment clause. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994 (OCoLC)625094062 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leonard W Levy |
| ISBN: | 080782156X 9780807821565 0807844667 9780807844663 |
| OCLC Number: | 29671097 |
| Description: | xxiii, 273 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Colonial establishments of religion -- State establishments of religion : New England -- State establishments of religion : the South -- The Constitution and religion -- Framing the Establishment clause -- James Madison versus the Nonpreferentialists -- The Supreme Court and the clause : judicial tests and aids to parochial schools -- The Supreme Court and the clause : public schools and public creches -- Incorporation and the wall. |
| Responsibility: | Leonard W. Levy. |
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Abstract:
Leonard Levy's classic work examines the circumstances that led to the writing of the establishment clause of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." He argues that the framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit government aid to religion even on an impartial basis. He thus refutes the view of "nonpreferentialists," who interpret the clause as allowing such aid provided that the assistance is not restricted to a preferred church. For this new edition, Levy has added to his original arguments and incorporated much new material, including an analysis of Jefferson's ideas on the relationship between church and state and a discussion of the establishment clause cases brought before the Supreme Court since the book was originally published in 1986.
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