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The First Amendment’S Religion Clauses: The Calvinist Document That Interprets Them Both, Leah Farish Esq.
The First Amendment’S Religion Clauses: The Calvinist Document That Interprets Them Both, Leah Farish Esq.
College of Arts and Cultural Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship
This paper suggests that the Westminster Confession of Faith's provisions about church and state, revised in Philadelphia at the start of the Constitution's ratifying convention, furnished much of the syntax and vocabulary for the First Amendment's religion clauses. Recognizing the cultural links between the new American government and the Presbyterian Church, the author argues that it was natural for the founders to look to how the new Westminster Confession situated church and state. The author argues that Fisher Ames's proposed wording for the First Amendment won immediate adoption because it resonated with the Confession, standing as it did in that …
Too Much To Bare? A Comparative Analysis Of The Headscarf In France, Turkey, And The United States, Hera Hashmi
Too Much To Bare? A Comparative Analysis Of The Headscarf In France, Turkey, And The United States, Hera Hashmi
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Eruv And Establishment, Lorin Geitner
Eruv And Establishment, Lorin Geitner
Lorin C. Geitner
An examination of how the Orthodox Jewish practice known as an "eruv", based in Jewish religious law, can help illustrate the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.