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The Godless Constitution is an urgent and timely reexamination of the roots of church-state separation in American politics - and a ringing refutation of the misguided claims of the religious right.
In this important polemic two distinguished scholars of American political ideas and religion refute this dangerous attempt to introduce what they term "religious correctness" into our politics, by reminding us that the absence of any mention of God in the Constitution was a conscious action on the framers' part, intended to prevent the bloody religious controversies that so marked European history.
They also emphasize that church-state separation was seen as a guarantee of - not a hindrance to - religions liberty. Fully respecting the importance of religion in the public sphere, yet forthright in defining proper limits, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American democracy - and a guide to keeping them intact in the forthcoming presidential campaign.
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Church and state, Freedom of religion, Staat, Religionsfreiheit, Kirche, Liberté religieuse, Kerk en staat, Verfassung (1787), Église et État, Church and state, united states, Religion and politics, Christianity and politics, Constitutional law, united states, Constitutional history, united statesPlaces
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The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
August 29, 2005, W. W. Norton
in English
0393328376 9780393328370
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The Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
August 29, 2005, W. W. Norton
in English
0393328376 9780393328370
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The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness
February 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
039331524X 9780393315240
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The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness
February 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
039331524X 9780393315240
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The godless constitution: the case against religious correctness
1996, Norton
in English
- 1st ed.
0393039617 9780393039610
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"AMERICANS SEEM TO fight about many silly things: whether a copy of the Ten Commandments can be posted in a city courthouse; whether a holiday display that puts an image of the baby Jesus next to one of Frosty the Snowman violates the Constitution; whether fidgeting grade-schoolers may stand for a minute in silent "spiritual" meditation before classes begin."
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