Download or read book The Proposed Christian Amendment to the United States Constitution From The Index of January 6th 1872 written by Francis Ellingwood Abbot and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers amendment to the Constitution declaring the U.S. as a Christian nation.
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States written by National Reform Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States written by National Reform Association (Founded 1863) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian Amendment to the United States Constitution written by J. F. Crozier and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitution of the Christian Amendment Movement written by Christian Amendment Movement and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers amendment to the Constitution declaring the U.S. as a Christian nation.
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Restoring Religious Freedom written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christ in the Constitution written by Katharine M. Batlan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Constitution is godless, but not everyone found that satisfactory. This dissertation follows debates between those who argued for and against adding “Jesus Christ” to the US Constitution from 1863-1975. A small group of Protestants worked for over a century to try to add recognition of Jesus Christ to the US Constitution. In their view, the legitimacy of government power derives from God, not the citizens. Further, even making gestures to the deist’s generic “creator God” would be insufficient since it might be misconstrued to mean the God of other religions. Therefore, they wanted to include a specific reference to Jesus Christ. For this dissertation, I used extensive sources from archives around the United States, including Congressional records from the National Archives, Christian Amendment Movement and National Reform Association materials housed at the Reformed Presbyterian Archives, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary Library, the Synagogue Council of America’s records at the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History. I also consulted documents from the University of Notre Dame Archives, Seventh-day Adventist archives, Seventh-day Adventist meeting minutes in which their reasoning for their position was explained. Periodicals that covered Seventh-day Adventist and atheist opposition to religious amendments provided additional insight. Whether the United States was a Christian nation at any point in its history, and whether it should be today are significant questions in American public life. Politicians base their careers on it. Historians make claims about it. And Americans always seem to voice opinions about it. Christian amendment advocates frequently said the United States was not officially a Christian nation, but should be. Allies they attracted had varying perspectives. And varied opponents of a Christian amendment often agreed that the United States was not a Christian nation—though they thought it should remain neutral. This dissertation provides historical depth to the ongoing public debate over the religious character of the United States, particularly in relation to its fundamental political document, the Constitution. Christian amendment attempts were made from the 1860s to the 1970s. The arguments of the past look quite similar to arguments among religious, non-religious, and government groups that continue today. In light of “Christian nation” rhetoric in contemporary politics, these questions are as salient as they were in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For most of the founders and most disputants between the 1860s and the 1970s, laws or amendments with too much theological specificity and broad implications for implementation proved problematic to the American federal system. I argue that a Christian amendment failed because it was too specific to pass. It arguably excluded citizens that the Constitution already enfranchised and protected. Instead, most Americans, I show, were comfortable with theologically broad religious language. The Confederacy placed “Almighty God” at the beginning of their constitution. US presidents called fast days for public prayer and in times of turmoil. “God” made it onto those coins and into the pledge. But even though the majority of citizens identified as Christian during this period, the men (and some women) who expressed a view or had political clout accepted the hard-won compromises of the authors of the Declaration and the Constitution. Jesus Christ was never added to the US Constitution, despite concerted efforts by some citizens to do so. Additionally, these legally unsuccessful but culturally significant amendment attempts drew a broad spectrum of interested parties to the discussion, including both legal experts and those who were not. Analyzing these disputes not only provides nuance to our understanding of the legal discussion but also uncovers the diverse religious views of a wide range of ordinary Americans. For the purposes of this dissertation, legal experts are defined as those judges who did the work of determining religious liberty’s meaning for the nation. Both experts and non-experts debated the meaning of religious liberty, even though only the legal experts had the power to set major legal standards. Rather than employing legal professionals’ definitions, as most studies on religion and law do, this dissertation will show that expert ideas were not always reflected in how non-experts expressed themselves. Both sets of views have a history and should be added to the story. These views did not appear out of nowhere. These questions related to the religious character of the United States remain salient in scholarship and contemporary life even though amendment attempts ended in 1975
Download or read book The Godless Constitution written by Isaac Kramnick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.
Download or read book Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Restoring Religious Freedom written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Convention to Secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
