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The serpentine wall : the winding boundary between church and state in the United States / James F. Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, James F. (James Franklin), 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and state--United States--History.
- Church and state.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Church history.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 209 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick (U.S.A.) ; London (U.K.) : Transaction Publishers, [2013]
- Summary:
- The Ascent of Man develops a comprehensive theory of human nature. James F. Harris sees human nature as an emergent property that supervenes upon the causal nexus that is created by the interactions amongst a cluster of properties. While there is significant overlap between individuals that have human nature and those that are biologically human, the concept of human nature developed in this book is different from what it means to be biologically human. Whether biologically human or not, an individual may be said to possess human nature. This theory of human nature is called the "cluster theory"
- Religion and the Law examines the actions and words of the Supreme Court in applying constitutional language to the controversies that have come before it. Lest such an effort be reduced to recitation, these cases are measured against a "neutral principle" that will give the most appropriate scope to the religion clauses in such a manner as to provide guidance for legislatures and courts. This neutral principle has been framed in reliance on the Aristotelian axiom that "it is the mark of an educated man to seek precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- European influences
- Colonial America
- The founding and the founders
- The early republic
- The nineteenth century
- The 20th century to the present
- The Supreme Court
- The serpentine wall and universal history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412849708
- 1412849705
- OCLC:
- 793224179
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