Download or read book Antitheatricality and the Body Public written by Lisa A. Freeman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exploration of antitheatrical incidents from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates that at the heart of antitheatrical disputes lies a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.

Download or read book Who s the Bigot written by Linda C. McClain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, critics of interracial, interfaith, and most recently same-sex marriage have invoked conscience and religious liberty to defend their objections, and often they have been accused of bigotry. Although denouncing and preventing bigotry is a shared political value with a long history, people disagree over who is a bigot and what makes a belief, attitude, or action bigoted. This is evident from the rejoinder that calling out bigotry is intolerant political correctness, even bigotry itself. In Who's the Bigot?, the eminent legal scholar Linda C. McClain traces the rhetoric of bigotry and conscience across a range of debates relating to marriage and antidiscrimination law. Is "bigotry" simply the term society gives to repudiated beliefs that now are beyond the pale? She argues that the differing views people hold about bigotry reflect competing understandings of what it means to be "on the wrong side of history" and the ways present forms of discrimination resemble or differ from past forms. Furthermore, McClain shows that bigotry has both a backward- and forward-looking dimension. We not only learn the meaning of bigotry by looking to the past, but we also use examples of bigotry, on which there is now consensus, as the basis for making new judgments about what does or does not constitute bigotry and coming to new understandings of both injustice and justice. By examining charges of bigotry and defenses based on conscience and religious belief in these debates, Who's the Bigot? makes a novel and timely contribution to our understanding of the relationship between religious liberty and discrimination in American life.

Download or read book Eloquence and Reason written by Robert L. Tsai and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book presents a theory of the First Amendment's development. It reveals the social and institutional processes through which foundational ideas are generated and defends a cultural role for the courts.

Download or read book Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Judicial Review and American Conservatism written by Robert Daniel Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Majoritarian Justices -- The Great Debate -- The Imperial Judiciary -- Notes -- Index

Download or read book Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections written by Rolando V. del Carmen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States—prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws. Each chapter contains an introduction to the topic area, making the book more user-friendly and a better source of succinct legal information than before. All cases are briefed in a common format to allow for comparisons among cases and include facts, relevant issues, and the Court’s decision and reasoning. The significance of each case is also explained, making clear its impact on prisoners and corrections in general. The book provides students and practitioners with historical and social context for their role in criminal justice and the legal guidelines that should be followed in day-to-day correctional activities. Twenty-one cases have been added, including those in a new section on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

Download or read book Religious Liberty Volume 5 written by Douglas Laycock and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious-liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty. In this final volume Laycock documents the use of the Constitu­tion’s Free Speech Clause and Establishment Clause in legal briefs, scholarly and popular articles, House testimonies, and written debates. These two clauses have been vitally important in religious-liberty cases concerning religious speech in schools, politics, and the workplace, government funding of religious schools and social services, and the meaning of separation of church and state.

Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State written by Daniel Dreisbach and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state," and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate.

Download or read book The U S Supreme Court and New Federalism written by Christopher P. Banks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional scholars Christopher P. Banks and John C. Blakeman offer the most current and the first book-length study of the U.S. Supreme Court's "new federalism" begun by the Rehnquist Court and now flourishing under Chief Justice John Roberts. While the Rehnquist Court reinvorgorated new federalism by protecting state sovereignty and set new constitutional limits on federal power, Banks and Blakeman show that in the Roberts Court new federalism continues to evolve in a docket increasingly attentive to statutory construction, preemption, and business litigation

Download or read book Official Reports of the Supreme Court written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics written by Andrew R. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics documents a recent, fundamental change in American politics with the waning of Christian America. Rather than conservatives emphasizing morality and liberals emphasizing rights, both sides now wield rights arguments as potent weapons to win political and legal battles and build grassroots support. Lewis documents this change on the right, focusing primarily on evangelical politics. Using extensive historical and survey data that compares evangelical advocacy and evangelical public opinion, Lewis explains how the prototypical culture war issue - abortion - motivated the conservative rights turn over the past half century, serving as a springboard for rights learning and increased conservative advocacy in other arenas. Challenging the way we think about the culture wars, Lewis documents how rights claims are used to thwart liberal rights claims, as well as to provide protection for evangelicals, whose cultural positions are increasingly in the minority; they have also allowed evangelical elites to justify controversial advocacy positions to their base and to engage more easily in broad rights claiming in new or expanded political arenas, from health care to capital punishment.

Download or read book Rumsfeld V Padilla 2004 written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of John G Roberts Jr to be Chief Justice of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution written by Roger Williams and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Crisis of Church and State 1050 1300 written by Brian Tierney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: We need not be surprised, then, that in the Middle Ages also there were rulers who aspired to supreme political and temporal power. The truly exceptional thing is that in medieval times there were always at least two claimants to the role, each commanding a formidable apparatus of government, and that for century after century neither was able to dominate the other completely, so that the duality persisted, was eventually rationalized in works of political theory and ultimately built into the structure of European society. This situation profoundly influenced the development of Western constitutionalism.

Download or read book To Touch the Face of God written by Kendrick Oliver and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the space program the signature project of secular modernity or a symbol of humankind’s perpetual quest for communion with God? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . .” In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited the first ten verses from the book of Genesis. In fact, many of the astronauts found space flight to be a religious experience. To Touch the Face of God is the first book-length historical study of the relationship between religion and the U.S. space program. Kendrick Oliver explores the role played by religious motivations in the formation of the space program and discusses the responses of religious thinkers such as Paul Tillich and C. S. Lewis. Examining the attitudes of religious Americans, Oliver finds that the space program was a source of anxiety as well as inspiration. It was not always easy for them to tell whether it was a godly or godless venture. Grounded in original archival research and the study of participant testimonies, this book also explores one of the largest petition campaigns of the post-war era. Between 1969 and 1975, more than eight million Americans wrote to NASA expressing support for prayer and bible-reading in space. Oliver’s study is rigorous and detailed but also contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind’s first adventures in “the heavens.”