TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Tracy L.
TI  - First Amendment Religious Liberties: Supreme Court Decisions and Public Opinion, 1947-2013
T2  - Law and Society
SN  - 9781593327828
AV  - KF4865 .C66 2014 
U1  - 342.7308/52 
PY  - 2014///
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - fast
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Cases
KW  - Freedom of religion
KW  - Église et État
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Liberté religieuse
KW  - LAW
KW  - Constitutional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Historical background -- Religion in public school -- Religious expressions and government property -- Public aid for religion -- Free exercise -- Conclusion
N2  - Cook analyzes the relationship between Supreme Court decisions and public opinion concerning First Amendment religious liberties. Overall, the Court has issued opinions consistent with public opinion in a majority of its decisions dealing with the First Amendment's religion clauses, with a level of congruence of almost seventy percent when a clear public opinion expression is present. She also provides a new perspective for understanding the long and contentious debate about prayer in public school by identifying an area of agreement between the Court and public opinion that has not received m
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