Judicial review and American conservatism : Christianity, public education, and the federal courts in the Reagan era
- Responsibility
- Robert Daniel Rubin.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Copyright notice
- ©2017
- Physical description
- ix, 347 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Rubin, Robert Daniel, author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: Conservatism and the constitution
- Massive resistance
- The moral majority of Alabamians
- Justice made political
- Accommodation
- Showdown
- The trouble with secularism
- Religion by any other name
- Conclusion: The constitution and the people.
- Publisher's Summary
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The Christian Right of the 1980s forged its political identity largely in response to what it perceived as liberal 'judicial activism'. Robert Daniel Rubin tells this story as it played out in Mobile, Alabama. There, a community conflict pitted a group of conservative evangelicals, a sympathetic federal judge, and a handful of conservative intellectuals against a religious agnostic opposed to prayer in schools, and a school system accused of promoting a religion called 'secular humanism'. The twists in the Mobile conflict speak to the changes and continuities that marked the relationship of 1980s' religious conservatism to democracy, the courts, and the Constitution. By alternately focusing its gaze on the local conflict and related events in Washington, DC, this book weaves a captivating narrative. Historians, political scientists, and constitutional lawyers will find, in Rubin's study, a challenging new perspective on the history of the Christian Right in the United States.
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Subjects
- Subjects
- Jaffree, Ishmael > Trials, litigation, etc.
- Smith, Douglas T. > Trials, litigation, etc.
- Hand, W. Brevard.
- Mobile County (Ala.). Board of School Commissioners > Trials, litigation, etc.
- Religion in the public schools > Law and legislation > Alabama > History > 20th century.
- Religion in the public schools > Law and legislation > United States > History > 20th century.
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- Publication date
- 2017
- Copyright date
- 2017
- Title variation
- Christianity, public education, and the federal courts in the Reagan era
- Series
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
- Note
- Discussing cases: Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985) and Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987).
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Indiana University, 2009) issued under title: Establish no religion : faith, law, and public education in Mobile, Alabama, 1981-1987.
- ISBN
- 9781107060555 hardcover ; alkaline paper
- 1107060559 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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