Disestablishment and Religious Dissent: Church-State Relations in the New American States, 1776-1833 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826221939 ISBN 13 : 9780826221933

Editeur : University of Missouri Press, 2019

Synopsis

On May 10, 1776, the Second Continental Congress sitting in Philadelphia adopted a Resolution which set in motion a round of constitution making in the colonies, several of which soon declared themselves sovereign states and severed all remaining ties to the British Crown. In forming these written constitutions, the delegates to the state conventions were forced to address the issue of church-state relations. Each colony had unique and differing
traditions of church-state relations rooted in the colony's peoples, their country of origin, and religion.

This definitive volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a comprehensive state-by-state account of disestablishment in the original thirteen states, as well as a look at similar events in the soon-to-be-admitted states of Vermont, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Also considered are disestablishment in Ohio (the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory), Louisiana and Missouri (the first states admitted from the Louisiana Purchase), and Florida (wrestled from Spain under U.S. pressure). The volume makes a unique scholarly contribution by recounting in detail the process of disestablishment in each of the colonies, as well as religion's constitutional and legal place in the new states of the federal republic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carl H. Esbeck is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri. Jonathan J. Den Hartog is Chair of the History Department andProfessor of History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Missouri Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826221939
• ISBN 13: 9780826221933
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Esbeck Carl H., Hartog Jonathan J. Den
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