Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment: Essential Rights and Liberties

by Joel A. Nichols and John Witte Jr.

Book Overview

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors provide extensive analysis of the formation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813333067
• ISBN13: 9780813333069
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A fine, if a bit shallow, study

As its modest dimensions would suggest, Witte's book is meant to be a quick overview of judicial attitudes towards religious freedom in the United States, instead of a comprehensive history. The author does a marvelous job of consolidating the varied factors that have gone into the current stare decisis in First Amendment religion jurisprudence. Witte has a very readable style, and this book would hold the interest of the casual reader while serving quite well as a text book for classes on the subject.