Religious liberty in America : political safeguards / Louis Fisher.
2002
KF4783 .F57 2002 (Map It)
On loan from Cellar, due 22. Dec 2025
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS |
Items
Details
Author
Title
Religious liberty in America : political safeguards / Louis Fisher.
Published
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
KF4783 .F57 2002
ISBN
0700612017 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700612025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700612025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50642533
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Citations
Introduction
1
1
Who Protects Minority Rights?
4
Conventional Views
4
Early Lessons (1789-1861)
6
After the Civil War
13
Prohibiting Polygamy
20
Twentieth-Century Disputes
27
2
The Struggle for Religious Liberty
32
Colonial Precedents
32
Locke's Influence
36
The Virginia Statute of 1786
39
Meeting at Philadelphia
43
Activity by the First Congress
48
The Bill of Rights
54
3
The Religious Lobby
58
Madison's Factions
58
Religious Activism
60
Organizing for Action
71
4
Conscientious Objectors
82
The Colonies and Early State Governments
82
The First Congress
84
Civil War Exemptions
87
World War I Experiences
91
Broadening the Exemption in 1940
96
Belief in a Supreme Being
99
Current National Policy
103
5
Flag Salutes and Yarmulkes
105
Compulsory Flag Salute
105
The Yarmulke Case
114
6
School Prayer
123
Misunderstanding the Ruling
123
Reagan Initiatives
132
Equal Access Act
135
Local Noncompliance
138
Moment of Silence
139
Clinton's 1995 Memo
140
Continued Challenges
142
7
Indian Religious Freedom
147
Propagating the Gospel
147
Indian Removal
151
Grant's Peace Policy
155
The Stirrings of Reform
158
Protective Legislation
163
8
Religious Use of Peyote
175
Peyotism
175
The Case of Al Smith and Galen Black
183
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)
189
9
Statutory Exemptions
202
Tax Exemptions
202
Prohibition Statutes
209
Exemptions from Social Security
213
Federal Discrimination Laws
217
Labor Laws
221
Animal Slaughter
222
Conclusions
227
Bibliography
235
Index of Cases
255
Subject Index
261