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No Aid, No Agency, Steven K. Green
No Aid, No Agency, Steven K. Green
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Over the past three decades, members of the Supreme Court have demonstrated increasing hostility to the Establishment Clause’s rule against funding religion, first enunciated in 1947. Over the years, the Court has not only narrowed the rule to allow for government aid to flow to religious schools and faith-based charities, it has more recently declared that to enforce that rule may amount to discrimination against religion. This Article argues that a key reason for the decline in the no-aid principle rests on the weakness of the rationale underlying that rule: that funding of religion coerces the conscience of taxpayers. The …
An Illiberal Union, Sonu Bedi
An Illiberal Union, Sonu Bedi
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article breaks new ground by applying the philosophical framework of liberal neutrality (most famously articulated by John Rawls) to the United States Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on marriage. At first blush, the Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the culmination of marriage rights—seems to affirm a central principle of liberalism, namely equal access to marriage regardless of sexual orientation. Gays and lesbians can finally take part in an institution that celebrates the union of two committed individuals. But perversely, in its attempt to expand access to marriage, the Court has simultaneously entrenched values that are antithetical to the basic tenants …
Not Today, Satan: Re-Examining Viewpoint Discrimination In The Limited Public Forum, Daniel Cutler
Not Today, Satan: Re-Examining Viewpoint Discrimination In The Limited Public Forum, Daniel Cutler
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself: Islamophobia And The Recently Proposed Unconstitutional And Unnecessary Anti-Religion Laws, Lee Tankle
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Kiss The Book...You're President...: "So Help Me God" And Kissing The Book In The Presidential Oath Of Office, Frederick B. Jonassen
Kiss The Book...You're President...: "So Help Me God" And Kissing The Book In The Presidential Oath Of Office, Frederick B. Jonassen
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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The Fading Free Exercise Clause, Rene Reyes
The Fading Free Exercise Clause, Rene Reyes
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article uses the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Christian Legal Society
v. Martinez as a point of departure for analyzing the current state of free exercise doctrine. I argue that one of the most notable features of the Christian Legal Society (CLS) case is its almost total lack of engagement with the Free Exercise Clause. For the core of CLS’s complaint was unambiguously about the declaration and exercise of religious beliefs: the group claimed that it was being excluded from campus life because it required its members to live according to shared religious principles and to subscribe to a …
Constantly Approximating Popular Sovereignty: Seven Fundamental Principles Of Constitutional Law, Wilson R. Huhn
Constantly Approximating Popular Sovereignty: Seven Fundamental Principles Of Constitutional Law, Wilson R. Huhn
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Government Identity Speech And Religion: Establishment Clause Limits After Summum, Mary Jean Dolan
Government Identity Speech And Religion: Establishment Clause Limits After Summum, Mary Jean Dolan
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article offers in-depth analysis of the opinions in Pleasant Grove v. Summum. Summum is a significant case because it expands “government speech” to cover broad, thematic government identity messages in the form of donated monuments, including the much-litigated Fraternal Order of Eagles-donated Ten Commandments. The Article explores the fine distinctions between the new “government speech doctrine”— a defense in Free Speech Clause cases that allows government to express its own viewpoint and to reject alternative views—and “government speech” analyzed under the Establishment Clause, which prohibits government from expressing a viewpoint on religion, and from favoring some religions over others. …
The Nonproblem Of Fundamentalism, Andrew Koppelman
The Nonproblem Of Fundamentalism, Andrew Koppelman
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Fundamentalist Challenges To Core Democratic Values: Exit And Homeschooling, Catherine J. Ross
Fundamentalist Challenges To Core Democratic Values: Exit And Homeschooling, Catherine J. Ross
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Perspectives On Religious Fundamentalism And Families In The U.S., Vivian E. Hamilton
Introduction: Perspectives On Religious Fundamentalism And Families In The U.S., Vivian E. Hamilton
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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God Of Our Fathers, Gods For Ourselves: Fundamentalism And Postmodern Belief, Frederick Mark Gedicks
God Of Our Fathers, Gods For Ourselves: Fundamentalism And Postmodern Belief, Frederick Mark Gedicks
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Family Values, Courts, And Culture War: The Case Of Abstinence-Only Sex Education, John E. Taylor
Family Values, Courts, And Culture War: The Case Of Abstinence-Only Sex Education, John E. Taylor
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Must God Be Dead Or Irrelevant: Drawing A Circle That Lets Me In, Richard M. Esenberg
Must God Be Dead Or Irrelevant: Drawing A Circle That Lets Me In, Richard M. Esenberg
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Some scholars claim that current Establishment Clause doctrine can increasingly be explained in terms of substantive neutrality-that is, the idea that government ought to treat religion and irreligion (or comparable secular activities) in the same way. Whether a product of the Court's commitment to the idea or an artifact of the positions of the "swing" Justices, this proposition has considerable explanatory power. The Supreme Court has, in recent years, permitted the government to make financial support equally available for religious uses, as long as it is done on a neutral basis and through the private choice of the recipients. It …
The Congressional Chaplaincies, Christopher C. Lund
The Congressional Chaplaincies, Christopher C. Lund
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Roughly twenty-five years ago, in Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court considered the congressional chaplaincies, and concluded that they were not "an 'establishment' of religion or a step toward establishment," but instead were "simply a tolerable acknowledgment of beliefs widely held among the people of this country."' That latter phrase has been repeated hundreds of times in cases and law review articles; it suggests that the chaplaincies are uninteresting and uncontroversial and that they have been so throughout our history. The Court in Marsh looked only briefly at the history of the chaplaincies.2 A deeper look at that history reveals …
Losing Our Religion: Reevaluating The Section 501(C)(3) Exemption Of Religious Organizations That Discriminate, Nicholas A. Mirkay
Losing Our Religion: Reevaluating The Section 501(C)(3) Exemption Of Religious Organizations That Discriminate, Nicholas A. Mirkay
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Separationism To The Extreme: The Mt. Soledad Cross And The Ninth Circuit's Crusade To Burden The Free Exercise Clause, Cameron M. Rountree
Separationism To The Extreme: The Mt. Soledad Cross And The Ninth Circuit's Crusade To Burden The Free Exercise Clause, Cameron M. Rountree
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Civil Procedure And The Establishment Clause: Exploring The Ministerial Exception, Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, And The Freedom Of The Church, Gregory A. Kalscheur
Civil Procedure And The Establishment Clause: Exploring The Ministerial Exception, Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, And The Freedom Of The Church, Gregory A. Kalscheur
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
What sort of defense is provided by the ministerial exception to employment discrimination claims? The ministerial exception bars civil courts from reviewing the decisions of religious organizations regarding the employment of their ministerial employees. While the exception itself is widely recognized by courts, there is confusion with respect to the proper characterization of the defense provided by the exception: should it be seen as a subject matter jurisdiction defense, or as a challenge to the legal sufficiency of the plaintiff's claim? This Article argues that articulating the right answer to this question of civil procedure is crucial to a proper …
Freedom To Err: The Idea Of Natural Selection In Politics, Schools, And Courts, Paul D. Carrington
Freedom To Err: The Idea Of Natural Selection In Politics, Schools, And Courts, Paul D. Carrington
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Cross At College: Accomodation And Acknowledgment Of Religion At Public Universities, Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
The Cross At College: Accomodation And Acknowledgment Of Religion At Public Universities, Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Intelligent Design In Public University Science Departments: Academic Freedom Or Establishment Of Religion, Frank S. Ravitch
Intelligent Design In Public University Science Departments: Academic Freedom Or Establishment Of Religion, Frank S. Ravitch
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
If At First You Don't Succeed, Sign An Executive Order: President Bush And The Expansion Of Charitable Choice, Michele Estrin Gilman
If At First You Don't Succeed, Sign An Executive Order: President Bush And The Expansion Of Charitable Choice, Michele Estrin Gilman
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article analyzes whether President Bush's charitable choice executive orders, which permit religious organizations to apply for federal funds to deliver social services, are a permissible exercise of presidential power. Although Congress has enacted charitable choice provisions in some major statutes, including a 1996 welfare reform act, it debated but did not extend charitable choice throughout the entire federal human services bureaucracy, as the President's executive orders do. The core question this Article examines is whether President Bush's charitable choice executive orders constitute permissible gap-filling of ambiguous statutes under the Chevron doctrine or impermissible exercises of executive lawmaking under Youngstown …
Social Reproduction And Religious Reproduction: A Democratic-Communitarian Analysis Of The Yoder Problem, Josh Chafetz
Social Reproduction And Religious Reproduction: A Democratic-Communitarian Analysis Of The Yoder Problem, Josh Chafetz
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Cutter And The Preferred Position Of The Free Exercise Clause, Steven Goldberg
Cutter And The Preferred Position Of The Free Exercise Clause, Steven Goldberg
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Up Against The Wall Of Separation: The Question Of American Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
Up Against The Wall Of Separation: The Question Of American Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Ten Commandments, Nine Judges, And Five Versions Of One Amendment - The First. ("Now What?"), William W. Van Alstyne
Ten Commandments, Nine Judges, And Five Versions Of One Amendment - The First. ("Now What?"), William W. Van Alstyne
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Original Meaning Of The Establishment Clause, Robert G. Natelson
The Original Meaning Of The Establishment Clause, Robert G. Natelson
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Why Justice Breyer Was Wrong In Van Orden V. Perry, Erwin Chemerinsky
Why Justice Breyer Was Wrong In Van Orden V. Perry, Erwin Chemerinsky
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court And The Ten Commandments: Compounding The Establishment Clause Confusion, Jay A. Sekulow, Francis J. Manion
The Supreme Court And The Ten Commandments: Compounding The Establishment Clause Confusion, Jay A. Sekulow, Francis J. Manion
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Upholding The Unbroken Tradition: Constitutional Acknowledgment Of The Ten Commandments In The Public Square, Greg Abbott
Upholding The Unbroken Tradition: Constitutional Acknowledgment Of The Ten Commandments In The Public Square, Greg Abbott
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.