Religion, Morality, and the Constitutional Order [Paperback]

Historically, debates over the meaning of religious liberty in the United States has taken place largely at the local level. Linda Przybyszewski examines the origins of this sociopolitical custom and how it changed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the Supreme Court opened the door to federal challenges to local religious interpretations of the First Amendment.Historically, debates over the meaning of religious liberty in the United States has taken place largely at the local level. Linda Przybyszewski examines the origins of this sociopolitical custom and how it changed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the Supreme Court opened the door to federal challenges to local religious interpretations of the First Amendment.Series IntroductionIntroductionChapter 1: Colonial Beginnings and EndingsChapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Reform, State Institutions, and Legal ThoughtChapter 3: Equality and God's Natural Order in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 4: Religions for a RepublicChapter 5: Religion and Reform Enter the Twentieth CenturyChapter 6: The Growth of Federal PowerChapter 7: Religion and Public Education in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 8: Race, Sex, and Religious Faith in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 9: The Indian Origins of the Religious Freedom Restoration ActConclusionBibliographyNotesLinda Przybyszewski is an associate professor of American legal, constitutional, cultural, and intellectual history at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Northwestern University. She has published The Republic according to John Marshall Harlan (1999) and the articles The Fuller Court (1888-1910): Property and Liberty(in The Supreme Court of the United States: The Pursuit of Justice, 2005), Judicial Conservatism and Protestant Faith: The Case of Justice David J. Brewer(Journal of American History, 2004), and The Religion of a Jurist: Justice David Brewer and the Christian Nation(Journal of Supreme ClÍ