When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict

by Kent Greenawalt

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Taken as a whole, this statement has the aim of separating church and state, but tensions can emerge between its two elements--the so-called Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause--and the values that lie beneath them.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972201
• ISBN13: 9780674972209
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"