Beschreibung:
The United States Constitution's protections for conscience, often described as robust, have in reality been of varying strengths, and the Supreme Court has offered specious rationales to justify the inconsistent application of differing standards while claiming to be consistently applying a single principle.
Introduction; 1: Free exercise and the definition of religion; 2: Institutional autonomy and the ministerial exception; 3: Fighting wars and claims of conscience; 4: Early modern free exercise; 5: Free exercise becomes (more) chaotic; 6: The Smith revolution; 7: Corporate conscience; 8: Lower courts and the protection of religion;