Religion, the Constitution and Rawlsian Justice: A Critical Analysis of David A.J. Richards on the Religion Clauses

What sort of relation between religion and government does the Constitution of the United States affirm? As anyone even remotely familiar with the subject will know, this question is large as well as enormously complex and invites reflection on a host of subsidiary problems: What are the precise mea...

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Main Author: Santurri, Edmund N. 1950- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1992
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 1992, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-346
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