{"product_id":"foreordained-failure-steven-d-smith-9780195132489","title":"Foreordained Failure: The Quest for a Constitutional Principle of Religious Freedom","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven D. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195132483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195132489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.51d","brand":"Steven D. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112850796799,"sku":"9780195132489","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a69b9250-39a5-427f-8131-7a10df1d2bde.jpg?v=1769611365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/foreordained-failure-steven-d-smith-9780195132489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}