Research

Religious Dimensions of American Constitutionalism

Project Description

An exploration of the sources of the Christian and Enlightenment sources of American constitutionalism in the 18th century.

Project Accomplishments
  • April 7-8, 1988, conference with 20 speakers, 250 participants
  • "A Symposium on Religious Dimensions of American Constitutionalism," Emory Law Journal 39 (1990): 1-266
Sponsors

The Georgia Bar Foundation, Harold J. Berman

Directors
CSLR Participants
Other Participants
  • Gerard V. Bradley, University of Notre Dame
  • William W. Fisher III, Harvard University
  • Howard O. Hunter, Emory University
  • Donald S. Lutz, University of Houston
  • Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University
  • W. Tarver Rountree, Jr., Emory University

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"From Establishment to Freedom of Public Religion," Capital University Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2003): 499-518 John Witte, Jr.
"Legal Limitations to Freedom of Religion or Belief in School Education," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 19 (2005): 557-586 Ingvill Plesner
"Republic and Liberal State: The Place of Religion in an Ambiguous Polity," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 39 (1990): 191-202 Steven M. Tipton
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"Why does a liberal democracy protect the right not just to religious belief, but to religious practice? Once you discern the best case for protecting that right, another question arises: Should a liberal democracy protect the right to moral practice as well? And if we have the right to moral freedom, what implications might that suggest with respect to same-sex marriage?"

–Michael J. Perry

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