See K. Wald, Religion and Politics in the United States ( 1987). See also G. Wills , Under God: Religion and American Politics ( 1990). For a collection of historical essays on religion and politics in the United States, see M. Noll, ed., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s ( 1990).
Love and Power is also, in part, a response to Richard John Neuhaus's invitation "to make the argument for the connections between bibilical faith and democratic governance. . . . In the past that argument was made in part by thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, Jacques Maritain, and A. D. Lindsay. The argument has been sorely neglected in our recent history." R. Neuhaus , The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America xi ( 2d ed. 1986). As I later emphasize, however, I am concerned not only with "biblical" faith but with religious faith generally.
Woodward, "Noonan's Life in the Law," Newsweek, Apr 1, 1987, at 82. Noonan made the statement in the foreword to his Persons and Masks of the Law ( 1976) (at p. xii).
J. Murray, We Hold These Truths 27 ( 1960). Murray added: "This fact cre- ated the possibility of a new solution; indeed, it created a demand for a new solution. The possibility was exploited and the demand was met by the American Constitution." Id. For a discussion of the constitutional provision most relevant to
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Publication Information: Book Title: Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics. Contributors: Michael J. Perry - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1991. Page Number: 146.
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