Download or read book Defending American Religious Neutrality written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality—more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic than conservatives advocate. The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion is under threat. Growing numbers of critics, including a near-majority of the Supreme Court, seem ready to cast aside the ideal of American religious neutrality. Andrew Koppelman defends that ideal and explains why protecting religion from political manipulation is imperative in an America of growing religious diversity. Understanding American religious neutrality, Koppelman shows, can explain some familiar puzzles. How can Bible reading in public schools be impermissible while legislative sessions begin with prayers, Christmas is an official holiday, and the words “under God” appear in the Pledge of Allegiance? Are faith-based social services, public financing of religious schools, or the teaching of intelligent design constitutional? Combining legal, historical, and philosophical analysis, Koppelman shows how law coherently navigates these conundrums. He explains why laws must have a secular legislative purpose, why old, but not new, ceremonial acknowledgments of religion are permitted, and why it is fair to give religion special treatment.
Download or read book American Neutrality Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alabama British Neutrality and the American Civil War written by Frank J. Merli and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Confederacy's inept attempts to win foreign support for its cause.
Download or read book American Neutrality Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Propaganda and U S Neutrality in World War I written by Chad R. Fulwider and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fading evening light of August 4, 1914, Great Britain’s H.M.S. Telconia set off on a mission to sever the five transatlantic cables linking Germany and the United States. Thus Britain launched its first attack of World War I and simultaneously commenced what became the war’s most decisive battle: the battle for American public opinion. In this revealing study, Chad Fulwider analyzes the efforts undertaken by German organizations, including the German Foreign Ministry, to keep the United States out of the war. Utilizing archival records, newspapers, and “official” propaganda, the book also assesses the cultural impact of Germany’s political mission within the United States and comments upon the perception of American life in Europe during the early twentieth century.
Download or read book The First American Neutrality A Study of the American Understanding of Neutral Obligations During the Years 1792 to 1815 Repr Philadelphia Porcupine Press 1974 178 S 8 written by Charles Shang Hyneman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Neutrality written by Sir William Vernon Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woodrow Wilson and the Great War written by Robert W. Tucker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, and in light of U.S. attempts to project power in the world, the presidency of Woodrow Wilson has been more commonly invoked than ever before. Yet "Wilsonianism" has often been distorted by a concentration on American involvement in the First World War. In Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914-1917, prominent scholar Robert Tucker turns the focus to the years of neutrality. Arguing that our neglect of this prewar period has reduced the complexity of the historical Wilson to a caricature or stereotype, Tucker reveals the importance that the law of neutrality played in Wilson's foreign policy during the fateful years from 1914 to 1917, and in doing so he provides a more complete portrait of our nation's twenty-eighth president. By focusing on the years leading up to America's involvement in the Great War, Tucker reveals that Wilson's internationalism was always highly qualified, dependent from the start upon the advent of an international order that would forever remove the specter of another major war. World War I was the last conflict in which the law of neutrality played an important role in the calculations of belligerents and neutrals, and it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that this law--or rather Woodrow Wilson's version of it--constituted almost the whole of his foreign policy with regard to the war. Wilson's refusal to find any significance, moral or otherwise, in the conflict beyond the law and its violation led him to see the war as meaningless, save for the immense suffering and sense of utter futility it fostered. Treating issues of enduring interest, such as the advisability and effectiveness of U.S. interventions in, or initiation of, conflicts beyond its borders, Woodrow Wilson and the Great War will appeal to anyone interested in the president's power to determine foreign policy, and in constitutional history in general.
Download or read book American Neutrality Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains copies of published editorial comments on proposals to Congress to revise neutrality law.
Download or read book American Neutrality written by George Bemis and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First American Neutrality written by Charles S. Hyneman and published by Urbana, U. of Illinois. This book was released on 1934 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Conception Of Neutrality After 1941 written by Jurg M Gabriel and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-10-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neutrality as Influenced by the United States written by Syngman Rhee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AMERICAN NEUTRALITY POLICY written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised print. Considers legislation to create a National Munitions Control Board; to prohibit loans to belligerent nations; and to enable the President to place an embargo on arms and ammunition destined for nations at war.
Download or read book American Neutrality its honorable past its expedient future A protest against the proposed repeal of the neutrality laws etc written by George BEMIS and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoning American Neutrality written by R. Floyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance. The tension between Wilson's idealism and pragmatism ultimately drove him to abandon neutrality, paving the way for America's entrance into the war in 1917.
Download or read book American Neutrality Trial and Failure written by Charles Ghequiere Fenwick and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
