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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
Reforming The Ministerial Exception, Paul E. Mcgreal
Reforming The Ministerial Exception, Paul E. Mcgreal
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo
An Easy Sell: The Third Circuit Protects Religious Advertising In Colts V. Freethought, William Zachary Mineo
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
The Liberty Of The Church: Source, Scope And Scandal, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
This article was presented at a conference, and is part of a symposium, on "The Freedom of the Church in the Modern Era." The article argues that the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae, is not a mere metaphor, pace the views of some other contributions to the conference and symposium and of the mentality mostly prevailing over the last five hundred years. The argument is that the Church and her directly God-given rights are ontologically irreducible in a way that the rights of, say, the state of California or even of the United States are not. Based on a …
Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Resisting The Grand Coalition In Favor Of The Status Quo By Giving Full Scope To The Libertas Ecclesiae, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
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This paper argues that questions about "religious freedom" must be subordinated to the fundamental principle of the liberty of the Church, libertas Ecclesiae. The First Amendment's agnosticism with respect to the liberty of the Church is not ultimately normative. Catholics and others who merely seek religious "accommodation," as with the HHS mandate, for example, are agents of a status quo that illegitimately has comfortable self-preservation as its highest value. It is Catholic doctrine that "creation was for the sake of the Church," not for the sake of, say, religious freedom. The paper argues that the contingent constitution of …
“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
“The Pursuit Of Happiness” Comes Home To Roost? Same-Sex Union, The Summum Bonum, And Equality, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
John Locke understood human happiness to amount to the removal of "uneasiness." This paper argues that,to the extent that the United States is a nation dedicated to "the pursuit of happiness" understood as the removal of "uneasiness," same-sex unions or marriages should be given legal recognition. While Locke defended a variation on traditional marriage on the grounds of progenitiveness and care for dependent offspring, his more foundational commitment to the importance of the removal of uneasiness precludes, on pain of inconsistency, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. This paper argues, furthermore, that conservatives and neo-conservatives who celebrate this nation's being …
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
The Mighty Work Of Making Nations Happy: A Response To James Davison Hunter, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
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This article is an invited response to James Davison Hunter’s much-discussed book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). Hunter, a sociologist at UVA and a believing Protestant, claims that law’s capacity to contribute to social change is “mostly illusory” and that Christians, therefore, should practice “faithful presence” in the public square rather than seek to influence law directly. My response is that it is, in fact, law’s stunning ability to alter and limit available choices that makes it an object of deservedly fierce contest. The wild …
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Two Cheers For The Constitution Of The United States: A Response To Professor Lee J. Strang, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
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This article is an invited response to Professor Lee Strang’s article Originalism and the Aristotelian Tradition: Virtue’s Home in Originalism, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 1997 (2012). Strang defends original public meaning originalism from a virtue theoretic perspective that he traces to the “central Western tradition” and ultimately to Aristotle. I reply that those committed to that tradition do better (1) to reject original pubic meaning originalism, (2) to embrace some version of original intent originalism, and (3) to defend the original intent meaning of the U.S. Constitution only with important reservations and on certain conditions. The original sin of …
Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Legal Affinities: Explorations In The Legal Form Of Thought, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
This is my Introduction to Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (forthcoming 2012) (co-edited with H. Jefferson Powell and Jack Sammons), a volume of essays dedicated to exploring the work of Joseph Vining. The Introduction introduces Vining’s phenomenology of law and surveys the themes and topics developed by the volume’s eight authors: Joseph Vining, Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Rev. John McCausland, H. Jefferson Powell, Jack Sammons, Steve Smith, James Boyd White, and Patrick Brennan.
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Mead, Delegations, And Authority, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Delivering The Goods: Herein Of Mead, Delegations, And Authority, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
This paper argues, first, that the natural law position, according to which it is the function of human law and political authorities to instantiate certain individual goods and the common good of the political community, does not entail judges' having the power or authority to speak the natural law directly. It goes on to argue, second, that lawmaking power/authority must be delegated by the people or their representatives. It then argues, third, that success in making law depends not just on the exercise of delegated power/authority, but also on the exercise of care and deliberation or, in the article's terms, …
Standing, Spending, And Separation: How The No-Establishment Rule Does (And Does Not) Protect Conscience, Richard W. Garnett
Standing, Spending, And Separation: How The No-Establishment Rule Does (And Does Not) Protect Conscience, Richard W. Garnett
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Even Silence Has No Prayer: The Third Circuit Sacks Coach's Silent Team Prayer In Borden V. School District Of East Brunswick, Edward A. Liva
Even Silence Has No Prayer: The Third Circuit Sacks Coach's Silent Team Prayer In Borden V. School District Of East Brunswick, Edward A. Liva
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Differentiating Church And State (Without Losing The Church), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Differentiating Church And State (Without Losing The Church), Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
There is an ongoing debate about whether the U.S. Constitution includes -- or should be interpreted to include -- a principle of "church autonomy." Catholic doctrine and political theology, by contrast, clearly articulated a principle of "libertas ecclesiae," liberty of the church, when during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Church differentiated herself from the state. This article explores the meaning and origin of the doctrine of the libertas ecclesiae and the proper relationship among churches, civil society, and government. In doing so, it highlights the points at which church and state should cooperate and the points at which …
What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation And The Best Interests Of The Child, Jeffrey Shulman
What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation And The Best Interests Of The Child, Jeffrey Shulman
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Do Churches Matter - Towards An Institutional Understanding Of The Religion Clauses, Richard W. Garnett
Do Churches Matter - Towards An Institutional Understanding Of The Religion Clauses, Richard W. Garnett
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Subsidiary And Religious Establishments In The United States Constitution, Kyle Duncan
Subsidiary And Religious Establishments In The United States Constitution, Kyle Duncan
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Religious Group Autonomy: Further Reflections About What Is At Stake, Kathleen A. Brady
Religious Group Autonomy: Further Reflections About What Is At Stake, Kathleen A. Brady
Working Paper Series
This article addresses the protections afforded by the First Amendment when government regulation interferes with the internal activities or affairs of religious groups. In previous pieces, I have argued that the First Amendment should be construed to provide religious groups a broad right of autonomy over all aspects of internal group operations, those that are clearly religious in nature as well as activities that seem essentially secular. In my view, such autonomy is necessary to preserve the ability of religious groups to generate, live out and communicate their own visions for social life, including ideas that can push the norms …
Context Is King: A Perception-Based Test For Evaluating Government Displays Of The Ten Commandments, Nathan P. Heller
Context Is King: A Perception-Based Test For Evaluating Government Displays Of The Ten Commandments, Nathan P. Heller
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Nonestablishment Under God - The Nonsectarian Principle, Steven D. Smith
Nonestablishment Under God - The Nonsectarian Principle, Steven D. Smith
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Freethought Society V. Chester County And The Ten Commandments Debate: The Buck Stops Here For Establishment Clause Challenges To Religious Public Displays In The Third Circuit, Lauren A. Cates
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Religious Organizations And Mandatory Collective Bargaining Under Federal And State Labor Laws: Freedom From And Freedom For, Kathleen A. Brady
Religious Organizations And Mandatory Collective Bargaining Under Federal And State Labor Laws: Freedom From And Freedom For, Kathleen A. Brady
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
God, Jesus, Allah And Yahweh Should Be Government Employees: How Zelman V. Simmons-Harris Can Establish A Constitutional Framework For Government Funding Of Faith-Based Services, Craig A. Newell Jr.
God, Jesus, Allah And Yahweh Should Be Government Employees: How Zelman V. Simmons-Harris Can Establish A Constitutional Framework For Government Funding Of Faith-Based Services, Craig A. Newell Jr.
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Distinctive Place Of Religious Entities In Our Constitutional Order, Ira C. Lupu, Robert Tuttle
The Distinctive Place Of Religious Entities In Our Constitutional Order, Ira C. Lupu, Robert Tuttle
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Proper Role Of Religion In The Public Schools: Equal Access Instead Of Official Indoctrination, James L. Underwood
The Proper Role Of Religion In The Public Schools: Equal Access Instead Of Official Indoctrination, James L. Underwood
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Toward A Consensus On Religious Images In Civic Seals Under The Establishment Clause: American Civil Liberties Union V. City Of Stow, Kevin J. Mccabe
Toward A Consensus On Religious Images In Civic Seals Under The Establishment Clause: American Civil Liberties Union V. City Of Stow, Kevin J. Mccabe
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Taxation And Constitutional Law - The Internal Revenue Service Has The Power To Revoke The Tax-Exempt Status Of Private Schools Which Practice Racial Discrimination Due To Religious Belief, Since These Schools Are Not Charitable, And Revocation Does Not Violate The Free Exercise Or The Establishment Clauses Of The First Amendment, James R. Malone Jr.
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law - First Amendment - State Licensing Regulation Which Delegates Veto Power To A Church Over The Approval Of Liquor Licenses Within A Specified Distance Of Such Church Violates The Establishment Clause, Mark C. Levy
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law - First Amendment - A Statute That Permits A Tax Deduction For Public As Well As Nonpublic School Tuition And Related Expenses Does Not Violate The Establishment Clause Of The First Amendment, J. Edward Goff
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law - Pennsylvania Constitution - Equal Protection - Pennsylvania's Sunday Trading Laws Violate The Equal Protection Provision Of Pennsylvania's Constitution, Stanley A. Smith
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bringing Christian Schools Within The Scope Of The Unemployment Compensation Laws: Statutory And Free Exercise Issues, R. Leonard Davis Iii
Bringing Christian Schools Within The Scope Of The Unemployment Compensation Laws: Statutory And Free Exercise Issues, R. Leonard Davis Iii
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Irrelevance Of The Constitution: The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment And The Supreme Court, Philip B. Kurland
The Irrelevance Of The Constitution: The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment And The Supreme Court, Philip B. Kurland
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.