Both religion and state are visible. You know where to find them in England. They may have been at odds at various times, but you know who the players are.
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Turning to the United States, we see a very different picture. In the United States, neither church nor state is really present as a bounded institutional character either historically or today — certainly not at the federal level — in the management of religion. The US Constitution is understood to create a free market in religion, one that allows the individual — and to some extent the group — freedom of choice, unregulated by law. Neither the church nor the state is in charge.
The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution
They are understood to be separate and to be kept apart — apart from each other and prevented from imposing their will on the people. At least, in theory. Paul Horwitz agrees that they should be kept apart, but he wants judges and lawyers in the United States to take religion seriously.
He takes as a given that the evident persistence of religion, the stubborn facts of pluralism, and the collapse of the liberal consensus together demand a new approach to the interpretation of the religion clauses of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
What he calls the old neutrality, a neutrality which attempted to bracket religious truth, simply no longer corresponds to what he calls the new agnosticism. The implication is that Americans Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Law, Religion and the Constitution by Paul Horwitz. By trying to avoid the question of religious truth, law and religion has ultimately only reached a state of incoherence.
He asserts that the answer to this dilemma is to take the agnostic turn: This book offers a sensitive and sensible approach to questions of church-state conflict, justifying what the courts have done in some cases and demanding new results in others. Toon meer Toon minder.
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