God Versus Caesar

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God Versus Caesar
Belief, Worship, and Proselytizing under the First Amendment

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Martin S. Sheffer - Author

SUNY series in American Constitutionalism

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 213 pages

Release Date: May 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4175-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4175-6

Price: $32.95
Paperback - 213 pages

Release Date: May 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4176-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4176-3

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Summary

God Versus Caesar reviews and analyses the judicial development of the free exercise of religion clause, from its protection for belief and certain forms of worship to its guarantee of religiously motivated behavior. This book also provides guidelines for the future direction of judicial review in free exercise cases and examines law as it develops in response to changing social values and policy. Sheffer answers how, where, and why lines are drawn between the guarantee of free exercise of religion and the right of society to protect its citizens from activity injurious to their health, welfare, safety, and morals.

"Sheffer stresses the centrality of free exercise of religion in a free society. In discussing cases concerning conscientious objection, the author is particularly adept at bringing out inconsistencies in the law and showing the implications of those inconsistencies for a free society.

"Given changes in the Supreme Court over the past thirty-five years, this topic is very significant, both in itself and as part of constitutional law. The relationship between religion and politics is as uneasy as ever and this book advances understanding of it. Moreover, the Supreme Court is currently both sharply divided on free exercise questions and uncertain of where to go in the future. By putting the Court's record in this area into historical and analytical perspective, a book such as this arrives at a very propitious time." -- Gerard J. Fitzpatrick, Ursinus College

"God Versus Caesar is as interesting to read as it is impressive as scholarship. Sheffer's research strikes me as being impeccable. His discussion of cases is most complete, and, at the same time, does not become at all tiresome." -- Francis Graham Lee, Saint Joseph's University

Martin S. Sheffer is the author of Presidential Power: Case Studies in the Use of the Opinions of the Attorney General and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Tuskegee University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Evolution of Religious Liberty

Colonial Experience
Virginia Experience
Contitutional Guarantee

Contitutional Problems of Religion's Evolution
Law and the Problem of Free Exercise

1. Criminal Conduct/Antisocial Behavior

2. Previous Restraint

3. Public Education

4. Conscientious Objection, I

5. Conscientious Objection, II

6. Selective Conscientious Objection

7. Are Standards of Adjudication Possible?

Free Exercise and the Hierarchy of Values
Free Exercise and the Judicial Process
Free Exercise and the Quest for Standards

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Table of Cases

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

American Government
Constitutional Studies
Political Science

35585/35586(ZL/SG/)

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