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The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Green, Steven (Professor of Law, Director, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, Willamette)
The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Green, Steven (Professor of Law, Director, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Religion, Law and Democracy, Willamette)
Study of the American relationship between church and state tends to focus either on the founding period or the modern era. Steven Green argues that a crucial development occurred during the 19th century: a "second disestablishment." By the early 1800s, formal, political disestablishment had occurred nationally and among the states. Yet America remained a Christian nation. In the 19th century, legal and educational reforms and a growing appreciation of the nation'sreligious diversity led to a second disestablishment. Green shows that the second disestablishment is the missing link between the Establishment Clause and the modern Supreme Court's Church/State decisions.
470 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 29, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780195399677 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 472 |
Dimensions | 158 × 243 × 31 mm · 798 g |