Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court (eBook, ePUB)

The Essential Cases and Documents

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout American history, legal battles concerning the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty have been among the most contentious issue of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court: The Essential Cases and Documents, second edition, represents the most authoritative and up-to-date overview of the landmark cases that have defined religious freedom in America. Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Muñoz provides carefully edited excerpts from 77 of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases. In addition, Muñoz's substantive introduction offers an overview on the constitutional history of religious liberty in America. Introductory headnotes to each case provide the constitutional and historical context. Religious Liberty and the American Supreme Court is an indispensable resource for anyone interested matters of religious freedom from the Republic's earliest days to current debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 816
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216374848
• Artikelnr.: 75660430

Autorenporträt

Vincent Phillip Munoz is the Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Munoz writes and teaches across the fields of constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Cases by Subject Matter
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. CASES
1. Reynolds v. United States (1879)
2. Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1892)
3. Bradfield v. Roberts(1899)
4. Cantwell v. State of Connecticut (1940)
5. Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
6. Jones v. Opelika; Bowden v. FortSmith; Jobin v. Arizona (1942)
7. Murdock v. Pennsylvania (City of Jeannette) (1943)
8. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
9. Follett v. Town of McCormick (1944)
10. Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township (1947)
11. Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education (1948)
12. Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
13. Torcaso v. Watkins (1961)
14. Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)
15. Engel v. Vitale (1962)
16. Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)
17. Sherbert v. Verner (1963)
18. United States v. Seeger (1965)
19. Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
20. Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
21. Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York (1970)
22. Welsh v. United States (1970)
23. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
24. Tilton v. Richardson (1971)
25. Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
26. Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973)
27. McDaniel v. Paty (1978)
28. Stone v. Graham (1980)
29. Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division
(1981)
30. Widmar v. Vincent (1981)
31. United States v. Lee (1982)
32. Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
33. Mueller v. Allen (1983)
34. Marsh v. Chambers (1983)
35. Lynch v. Donnelly (1984)
36. Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
37. Witters v. Washington Department of Services for the Blind (1986)
38. Goldman v. Weinberger (1986)
39. Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)
40. Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints v. Amos (1987)
41. Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
42. Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock (1989)
43. County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union, Greater
Pittsburgh Chapter (1989)
44. Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith
(1990)
45. Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
46. Lee v. Weisman (1992)
47. Lamb's Chapeland John Steigerwald v. Center Moriches Union Free School
District (1993)
48. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah (1993)
49. Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (1993)
50. Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995)
51. Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)
52. Agostini v. Felton (1997)
53. City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
54. Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
55. Mitchell v. Helms (2000)
56. Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001)
57. Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
58. Locke v. Davey (2004)
59. Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004)
60. Van Orden v. Perry (2005)
61. McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (2005)
62. Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (2010)
63. Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011)
64. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (2012)
65. Town of Greece, NewYork v. Galloway (2014)
66. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014)
67. Trinity Lutheran v. Comer (2017)
68. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)
69. American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019)
70. Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020)
71. Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru (2020)
72. Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021)
73. Shurtleff v. City of Boston (2022)
74. Carson v. Makin (2022)
75. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022)
76. Catholic Charites Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review
Commission (2025)
77. Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025)
II. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
A. A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia (1777,1786)
Thomas Jefferson
B. Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments (1785)
James Madison
C. Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and Barnes v. Falmouth (1810)
D. Records of the First Congress Pertaining to the Drafting of the Religion
Clauses of the First Amendment (1789)
E. Letter to the Annual Meeting of Quakers (1789)
George Washington
F. Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport (1790)
George Washington
G. Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (1802)
Thomas Jefferson