Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom by Smith, Steven D.

Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195132489)

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Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom by Smith, Steven D.

Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom

$77.00
Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom by Smith, Steven D.

Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom

$77.00
Format: Paperback
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Ever since the Supreme Court began enforcing the First Amendment's religion clauses in the 1940s, courts and scholars have tried to distill the meaning of those clauses into a useable principle of religious freedom. In this highly original work, Smith criticizes the main positions in the debate and explains their misconceptions. He argues that efforts to find a principle of religious freedom in the "original meaning" are fruitless because the clauses were purely jurisdictional in nature: they were meant to place authority over questions of religion with the states, and nothing more. Contending that the perennial quest to distill religious freedom into a "principle," is futile, Smith advocates a fundamental reassessment of the premises upon which courts have proceeded in this area.

Author: Steven D. Smith
ISBN-10: 0195132483
ISBN-13: 9780195132489
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/22/1999
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.51d
By Steven D. Smith
By Steven D. Smith
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Steven D. Smith is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught and published extensively on legal subjects, including constitutional law and jurisprudence.

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