Religion Comes First in the Bill of Rights New Book Offers Legal Principles for the Judiciary in Securing Religious Liberty and Freedom of Conscience

Oliver Thomas. Oliver Thomas serves as to the National Council of Churches and consultant to the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center taught church-state law ., The Christian Science Monitor

SECURING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: PRINCIPLES FOR JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION OF THE RELIGION CLAUSES

By Jesse Choper

University of Chicago Press 198 pp., $24.95

RELIGIOUS liberty is a very popular idea in the abstract. It is only when you apply the idea to specific situations that we begin killing one another.

A similar claim could be made about Jesse Choper's "Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religious Clauses" -- that its appeal lies in its abstractness, a lofty purpose intended to provide "a comprehensive thesis for adjudication of all significant issues that arise under the Religion Clauses of the Constitution …

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Publication information: Article title: Religion Comes First in the Bill of Rights New Book Offers Legal Principles for the Judiciary in Securing Religious Liberty and Freedom of Conscience. Contributors: Oliver Thomas. Oliver Thomas serves as to the National Council of Churches and consultant to the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center taught church-state law . - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: May 15, 1995. Page number: 13. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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