GODLESS CONSTITUTION PA: The Case Against Religious Correctness - Softcover

Kramnick, Isaac; Moore, R. Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039331524X ISBN 13: 9780393315240

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Provides a defence of the importance of church-state separation in American history and politics.

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Reseña del editor

The Godless Constitution is an urgent and timely reexamination of the roots of church-state separation in American politics - and a ringing refutation of the misguided claims of the religious right. In this important polemic two distinguished scholars of American political ideas and religion refute this dangerous attempt to introduce what they term "religious correctness" into our politics, by reminding us that the absence of any mention of God in the Constitution was a conscious action on the framers' part, intended to prevent the bloody religious controversies that so marked European history. They also emphasize that church-state separation was seen as a guarantee of - not a hindrance to - religions liberty. Fully respecting the importance of religion in the public sphere, yet forthright in defining proper limits, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American democracy - and a guide to keeping them intact in the forthcoming presidential campaign.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 039331524X
• ISBN 13: 9780393315240
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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