Faith and Freedom Religious Liberty in America [Paperback]

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Faith and Freedomoffers an illuminating analysis of disputes over the religion clauses in the First Amendment. Frankel examines the most dramatic of the court cases concerned with these issues in the last half century--the claimed rights of Native Americans to use peyote in religious ceremonies, the demand of Amish parents to exempt their children from laws requiring school attendance, and many more. Arguing in the tradition of Roger Williams, Frankel suggests we must accept only the bare minimum of breaches between the religious domain and the state.

Marvin E. Frankel,now in private practice, served as Assistant Solicitor General, professor of Law at Columbia University, and U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He is the author of four books, including the influentialCriminal Sentences.

This engagingly written book is a pleasure to read because of its wisdom, sparkle, and judiciousness. Frankel is a champion of the First Amendment's religion clauses, but his intellectual independence makes his judgments unpredictable. . . . Strongly recommended. Leonard W. Levy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History Emeritus, Claremont Graduate School

This book is a coherent and consistent explanation of the Supreme Court's rulings on church and state over the last fifty years.Faith and Freedomis clear, compelling, and persuasive. Robert F. Drinnan, S.J., Georgetown University Law Center

Passionate and persuasive . . . a paean to the First Amendment and the simple words of the religion clauses. [This] lucid book is at once a brief in favor of a high, sturdy wall of separation between church and state and a report card on the Constitution's success in mediating the inevitable tensions arising among believers and nonbelievers of different stripes. JilS*