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Religious Freedom, Church Autonomy, And Constitutionalism, Richard W. Garnett
Religious Freedom, Church Autonomy, And Constitutionalism, Richard W. Garnett
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Our topic at this symposium is "religion, the state, and constitutionalism"-not "the Constitution," or "the First Amendment," but "constitutionalism." Countless conferences, cases, books, and articles have wrestled with one version or another of the question, "how does our Constitution, with its First Amendment and its religion clauses, promote, protect, or perhaps restrain religion?" We are considering, it seems to me, a question that is different, and that is different in interesting and important ways: What are connections between religion and religious freedom, on the one hand, and constitutionalism, on the other?
A Comparative Constitutional Law Canon, Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn
A Comparative Constitutional Law Canon, Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn
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The article discusses what types of legal cases constitute a “canon” on American constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law, examples of case law that illustrate important developments in the two subjects. It describes the process taken by the article's authors to select a small sampling of 90 “canon” cases for their course book on American constitutional law, which is designed for the academic community and for undergraduate students enrolled in a traditional liberal arts curriculum.