Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State - Softcover

Kramnick, Isaac; Moore, R Laurence

 
9780393328370: Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393328376 ISBN 13: 9780393328370
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Isaac Kramnick is professor emeritus of government at Cornell University.

R. Laurence Moore is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Cornell University

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The godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393328376
ISBN 13 
9780393328370
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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