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Free Exercise And The Values Of Religious Liberty, John H. Garvey Jan 1986

Free Exercise And The Values Of Religious Liberty, John H. Garvey

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One thing that has always bothered me about free exercise jurisprudence is that it rests on values we have seldom tried to state, much less justify. In a way this is not surprising. We have only recently abandoned the assumption, which may never have been true, that Americans share a common understanding of language about God and transcendent values. That understanding made it unnecessary to define for nonspeakers a meaning that even believers have trouble putting into words. But today we are probably not "a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being-at least not if "religious" is supposed to …


When Separate Is Equal: Why Organized Religious Exercises, Unlike Chess, Do Not Belong In The Public Schools (Symposium: Freedom Of Association), Ruti Teitel Jan 1986

When Separate Is Equal: Why Organized Religious Exercises, Unlike Chess, Do Not Belong In The Public Schools (Symposium: Freedom Of Association), Ruti Teitel

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The Supreme Court’S 1984–85 Church-State Decisions: Judicial Paths Of Least Resistance, Ruti G. Teitel Jan 1986

The Supreme Court’S 1984–85 Church-State Decisions: Judicial Paths Of Least Resistance, Ruti G. Teitel

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